Inventing modern adolescence : the children of immigrants in turn-of-the-century America

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Inventing modern adolescence : the children of immigrants in turn-of-the-century America

Sarah E. Chinn

(The Rutgers series in childhood studies)

Rutgers University Press, c2009

  • : pbk
  • : hardcover

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index

収録内容

  • "Youth must have its fling"
  • 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, dancehalls, and the exercise of adolescent freedom
  • "Youth is always turbulent" : reinterpretations of adolescence from Bohemia to Samoa

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巻冊次

: hardcover ISBN 9780813543093

内容説明

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 American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap" - a stereotypical complaint against American teens - actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, "Inventing Modern Adolescence" is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813543109

内容説明

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 American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"-a stereotypical complaint against American teens-actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.

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