Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “I Don’t Understand What’s Come Over the Children of This Generation” 1
5. 1. “Youth Must Have Its Fling”: The Beginnings of Modern Adolescence 13
6. 2. Picturing Labor: Lewis W. Hine, the Child Labor Movement, and the Meanings of Adolescent Work 29
7. 3. “Irreverence and the American Spirit”: Immigrant Parents, American Adolescents, and the Invention of the Generation Gap 77
8. 4. “Youth Demands Amusement”: Dancing, Dance Halls, and the Exercise of Adolescent Freedom 103
9. 5. “Youth Is Always Turbulent”: Reinterpretations of Adolescence from Bohemia to Samoa 130
10. Epilogue: Smells Like Teen Spirit 152
11. Notes 157
12. Bibliography 181
13. Index 193