Damned and the Beautiful : American Youth in the 1920s.
by
Fass, Paula S.
Title
:
Damned and the Beautiful : American Youth in the 1920s.
Author
:
Fass, Paula S.
ISBN
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9780198020202
Personal Author
:
Fass, Paula S.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (510 pages)
Contents
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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.
Abstract
:
Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
:
Conflict of generations -- United States.
Electronic books. -- local.
Subculture.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
Youth -- United States -- History.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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| IYTE Library | E-Book | 1188707-1001 | HQ799.7 -- .F37 1979 EB | Ebrary E-Books |