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Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930

  • ISBN-13: 9780801886997
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Crista DeLuzio
  • Price: AUD $135.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2007
  • Format: Hardback 344 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
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In this groundbreaking study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the disciplines of biology, psychology, and anthropology, DeLuzio examines the process by which youthful femininity in America became a contested cultural category.Challenging accepted views that professionals 'invented' adolescence during this period to understand the typical experiences of white middle-class boys, DeLuzio shows how early attempts to reconcile that conceptual category with 'femininity' not only shaped the social science of young women but also forced child development experts and others to reconsider the idea of adolescence itself. DeLuzio's provocative work permits a fuller understanding of how adolescence emerged as a 'crisis' in female development and offers insight into why female adolescence remains a social and cultural preoccupation even today.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. ''Laws of Life'': Developing Youth in Antebellum America2. ''Persistence'' versus ''Periodicity'': From Puberty to Adolescence in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Debate over Coeducation3. From ''Budding Girl'' to ''Flapper Americana Novissima'': G. Stanley Hall's Psychology of Female Adolescence4. ''New Girls for Old'': Psychology Constructs the Normal Adolescent Girl5. Adolescent Girlhood Comes of Age? The Emergence of the Culture Concept in American AnthropologyEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

""Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought addresses historians of childhood, medicine, and human science, but scholars of women and gender will also find it valuable.""

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