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The damned and the beautiful : American youth in the 1920's / Paula S. Fass.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fass, Paula S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--United States--History.
- Youth.
- Conflict of generations--United States.
- Conflict of generations.
- Subculture.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 497 pages) illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979, c1977.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920's broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Youth in the 1920's
- Part I: The Plastic Age
- 1. The Children of Our Discontent
- 2. The Family Redivivus: 1880-1930
- 3. The World of Youth: The Peer Society
- 4. Work and Play in the Peer Society
- Part II: Flappers and Philosophers
- 5. Competition and Conformity in the Peer Culture
- 6. Sexual Mores in the World of Youth
- 7. Symbols of Liberation
- 8. The Politics of Cultural Liberalism
- Conclusion: Change and Stability
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52282-8
- 0-19-802020-1
- OCLC:
- 476013000
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