The modern age : turn-of-the-century American culture and the invention of adolescence / Kent Baxter.
"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 the early twentieth centur...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2008]
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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 the early twentieth century."--Jacket. |
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Physical Description: | x, 185 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780817316266 0817316264 9780817380748 0817380744 9780817356989 0817356983 |