Get Out of My Room! : A History of Teen Bedrooms in America / Jason Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Jason, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers' rooms--United States.

Teenagers' rooms.

Teenagers--United States--Social conditions.

Teenagers.

Bedrooms--United States.

Bedrooms.

Teenagers--Conduct of life.

Teenage consumers--United States.

Teenage consumers.

Self-realization.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam the door). Even in our era of Snapchat and hoverboards, bedrooms remain a key part of teenage life, one of the only areas where a teen can exert control and find some privacy. And while these separate bedrooms only became commonplace after World War II, the idea of the teen bedroom has been around for a long time. With Get Out of My Room!, Jason Reid digs into the deep historical roots of the teen bedroom and its surprising cultural power. He starts in the first half of the nineteenth century, when urban-dwelling middle-class families began to consider offering teens their own spaces in the home, and he traces that concept through subsequent decades, as social, economic, cultural, and demographic changes caused it to become more widespread. Along the way, Reid shows us how the teen bedroom, with its stuffed animals, movie posters, AM radios, and other trappings of youthful identity, reflected the growing involvement of young people in American popular culture, and also how teens and parents, in the shadow of ongoing social changes, continually negotiated the boundaries of this intensely personal space. Richly detailed and full of surprising stories and insights, Get Out of My Room! is sure to offer insight and entertainment to anyone with wistful memories of their teenage years. (But little brothers should definitely keep out.)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Little Wholesome Neglect

2. A Site of Developmental Significance

3. Give a Room a Little Personality- Yours!

4. The Sign Reads 'Keep Out'

5. Rooms to a Teen's Tastes

6. Go to Your Multimedia Center!

7. Danger!

8. Just Like Brian Wilson Did . . .

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226409351

022640935X

OCLC:

965543714