Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930

by Crista DeLuzio

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886996
• ISBN13: 9780801886997
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"