Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
"Youth must have its fling" : the beginnings of modern adolescence -- Picturing labor : Lewis W. Hine, the child labor movement, and the meanings of adolescent work -- "Irreverence and the American spirit" : immigrant parents, American adolescents, and the invention of the generation gap -- "Youth demands amusement" : dancing, dance halls, and the exercise of adolescent freedom -- "Youth is always turbulent" : reinterpretations of adolescence from Bohemia to Samoa.
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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 -r.
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Inventing modern adolescence.
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Adolescence-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Children of immigrants-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Conflict of generations-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
adolescence-- conflit de générations-- Etats-Unis-- 19e s. (fin)-- 20e s. (début)
Adolescence.
adolescent-- immigré-- deuxième génération-- Etats-Unis-- 19e s. (fin)-- 20e s. (début)
adolescent-- travailleur-- Etats-Unis-- 19e s. (fin)-- 20e s. (début)
Barnet i historien-- Förenta staterna-- 1900-talet.