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

Author/creator Chinn, Sarah E.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Children of immigrants--United States. --History. --20th century.
Conflict of generations--United States. --History. --20th century.
Adolescence--United States. --History. --20th century.

SeriesRutgers series in childhood studies
Rutgers series in childhood studies. ^A690009
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.
LCCN 2007044898
ISBN9780813543093
ISBN0813543096
ISBN9780813543109 (pbk.)
ISBN081354310X (pbk.)