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9780813543093

Inventing Modern Adolescence

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813543093

  • ISBN10:

    0813543096

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-15
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
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Summary

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 an 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.

Table of Contents

"I Don't Understand What's Come Over the Children of This Generation"p. 1
"Youth Must Have Its Fling": The Beginnings of Modern Adolescencep. 13
Picturing Labor: Lewis W. Hine, the Child Labor Movement, and the Meanings of Adolescent Workp. 29
"Irreverence and the American Spirit": Immigrant Parents, American Adolescents, and the Invention of the Generation Gapp. 77
"Youth Demands Amusement": Dancing, Dance Halls, and the Exercise of Adolescent Freedomp. 103
"Youth Is Always Turbulent": Reinterpretations of Adolescence from Bohemia to Samoap. 130
Epilogue: Smells Like Teen Spiritp. 152
Notesp. 157
Bibliographyp. 181
Indexp. 193
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