Inventing modern adolescence
Subtitle: the children of immigrants in turn-of-the-century America
By: Sarah E. Chinn.
Series: The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780813543093; 9780813543109
Subjects: Children of immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Conflict of generations -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Youth must have its fling"; title: Picturing labor : Lewis w. Hine, the child labor movement, and the meanings of adolescent work; title: "Irreverence and the American spirit" : immigrant parents, American adolescents, and the invention of the generation gap; title: "Youth demands amusement" : dancing, dancehalls, and the exercise of adolescent freedom; title: "Youth is always turbulent" : reinterpretations of adolescence from Bohemia to Samoa.