Inventing modern adolescence : the children of immigrants in turn-of-the-century America /
The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of Ameri...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2009.
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Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "Youth must have its fling" : the beginnings of modern adolescence
- Picturing labor : Lewis W. Hine, the child labor movement, and the meanings of adolescent work
- "Irreverence and the American spirit" : immigrant parents, American adolescents, and the invention of the generation gap
- "Youth demands amusement" : dancing, dance halls, and the exercise of adolescent freedom
- "Youth is always turbulent" : reinterpretations of adolescence from Bohemia to Samoa.