Damned and the Beautiful : American Youth in the 1920s.
Title:
Damned and the Beautiful : American Youth in the 1920s.
Author:
Fass, Paula S.
ISBN:
9780198020202
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (510 pages)
Contents:
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:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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