Title: The damned and the beautiful : American youth in the 1920's /
Authors: Fass, Paula S.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Youth United States History.; Conflict of generations.; Subculture.; Conflict of generations United States; Subculture United States.; United States Social conditions
Abstract: Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.
Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction : Youth in the 1920s -- Part I; The Plastic Age -- The Children of Our Discontent -- The Family Redivivus; 1880-1930 -- The World of Youth : The Peer Society -- Work and Play in the Peer Society -- Part 2; Flappers and Philosophers -- Competition and Conformity in the Peer Culture -- Sexual Mores in the World of Youth -- Symbols of Liberation -- The Politics of Cultural Liberalism -- Conclusion : Change and Stability -- Notes -- Index