Sarah E Chinn

Inventing Modern Adolescence

The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813543109
• ISBN-10: 081354310X
• Artikelnr.: 23441149

Autorenporträt

Sarah E. Chinn

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "I Don't Understand What's Come Over the Children of This
Generation"
1. "Youth Must Have Its Fling": The Beginnings of Modern Adolescence
2. Picturing Labor: Lewis W. Hine, the Child Labor Movement, and the
Meanings of Adolescent Work
3. "Irreverence and the American Spirit": Immigrant Parents, American
Adolescents, and the Invention of the Generation Gap
4. "Youth Demands Amusement": Dancing, Dance Halls, and the Exercise of
Adolescent Freedom
5. "Youth is Always Turbulent": Reinterpretations of Adolescence from
Bohemia to Samoa
Epilogue: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Notes Bibliography
Index