TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chinn,Sarah E.
TI  - Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America 
T2  - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
SN  - 9780813543093
AV  - HQ792.U5 C45 2009eb (Online)
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Adolescence
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - USA
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Conflict of generations
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813545950
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813545950
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813545950/original
ER  -