Female adolescence in American scientific thought, 1830-1930 / Crista DeLuzio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeLuzio, Crista, 1966-

Series:

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--United States--History--19th century.

Teenage girls.

Teenage girls--United States--History--20th century.

Research--United States--History--19th century.

Research.

Research--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

DeLuzio's provocative work permits a fuller understanding of how adolescence emerged as a "crisisin female development and offers insight into why female adolescence remains a social and cultural preoccupation even today.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 ''Laws of Life'': Developing Youth in Antebellum America; 2 ''Persistence'' versus ''Periodicity'': From Puberty to Adolescence in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Debate over Coeducation; 3 From ''Budding Girl'' to ''Flapper Americana Novissima'': G. Stanley Hall's Psychology of Female Adolescence; 4 ''New Girls for Old'': Psychology Constructs the Normal Adolescent Girl; 5 Adolescent Girlhood Comes of Age?: The Emergence of the Culture Concept in American Anthropology; Epilogue; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-322) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9591-X

OCLC:

923194264

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access