Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830--1930 (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780801886997
Subjects: Adolescents; American history; Cultural studies; Business / Economics / Finance; History: American; USA; History; International - General; United States - General; History / United States / General; Gender Studies; 19th century; 20th century; Research; Teenage girls; United States
Description: "In this study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the disciplines of biology, psychology, and anthropology, DeLuzio examines the process by which youthful femininity in America became a contested cultural category."--book jacket.