The modern age : turn-of-the-century American culture and the invention of adolescence

Summary: The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterized American society in early-twentieth-century America. The idea of adolescence, argues Kent Baxter, came into being because it fulfilled specific historical and cultural needs: to define a quickly expanding segment of the population, and to express concerns associated with the movement into a new era. Adolescence - a term that had little currenc.

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ISBN: 9780817356989
ISBN: 0837356989
ISBN: 0817316264
ISBN: 9780817316266
ISBN: 0817380744
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 185 pages)
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Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	New kids on the block : school reform, the juvenile court, and demographic change at the turn of the century -- G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Mead, and the invention of adolescence -- Every vigorous race : age and Indian reform movements -- Playing Indian : the rise and fall of the Woodcraft youth movements -- Teen reading at the turn of the century (part I) : Horatio Alger -- Teen reading at the turn of the century (part II) : Edward Stratemeyer.
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Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Language Note:	English.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.