Inventing Modern Adolescence

This book PDF is perfect for those who love Family & Relationships genre, written by Sarah E. Chinn and published by Rutgers University Press which was released on 08 May 2024 with total hardcover pages 218. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related Inventing Modern Adolescence books below.

Inventing Modern Adolescence

Author	: Sarah E. Chinn
File Size	: 43,9 Mb
Publisher	: Rutgers University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 May 2024
ISBN	: 9780813543109
Pages	: 218 pages

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Inventing Modern Adolescence by Sarah E. Chinn Book PDF Summary

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. 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.

Inventing Modern Adolescence by Sarah E. Chinn

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