Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/DXQN1IL Inventing Modern Adolescence By: Sarah E. Chinn Publisher: Rutgers University Press Print ISBN: 9780813543093, 0813543096 eText ISBN: 9780813545950, 0813545951 Format: PDF Available from $ 29.95 USD SKU 9780813545950 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.
