Coming of Age : Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973 / Martin Kalb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalb, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Berghahn Books, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this fascinating study, constructs like the rowdy young boy and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the diffuse fears of adult society, while allowing authorities ranging from local institutions to the U.S. military government to strengthen forms of social control.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books

ISBN:

9781789209594

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.4.1335

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access