Inventing Modern Adolescence : : The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America / / Sarah E. Chinn.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 29 illustrations |
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Summary: | 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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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780813545950 9783110688610 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9780813545950 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sarah E. Chinn. |