Title Inventing modern adolescence : the children of immigrants in turn-of-the-century America / Sarah E. Chinn.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) : illustrations.
Series	The Rutgers series in childhood studies
	Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
Contents	"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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Summary	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.
Subject	Children of immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Conflict of generations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
	HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
	Adolescence. (OCoLC)fst00796984
	Children of immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00855365
	Conflict of generations. (OCoLC)fst00874815
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Einwanderer.
	Kind.
	Generationenkonflikt.
	United States.
	adolescent -- immigré -- deuxième génération -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s. (début)
	adolescent -- travailleur -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s. (début)
	adolescence -- conflit de générations -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s. (début)
	Jugend.
	Generationskonflikt.
	Einwanderer.
	Generation 2.
	United States.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1900-2000
	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Chinn, Sarah E. Inventing modern adolescence. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813543093 0813543096 (DLC) 2007044898 (OCoLC)180576192
ISBN	9780813545950 (electronic bk.)
	0813545951 (electronic bk.)

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