Description
Book SynopsisDeLuzio's provocative work permits a fuller understanding of how adolescence emerged as a "crisisin female development and offers insight into why female adolescence remains a social and cultural preoccupation even today.
Trade ReviewDeLuzio... breaks new ground in her assiduous examination of the relationship between science and society by using age and gender as dynamically connected categories of analysis... A broad cross-section of scholars is likely to find DeLuzio's 'essay on sources' particularly valuable for future research. -- Miriam Forman-Brunell Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2008 Deluzio skillfully weaves together social history and the intellectual history of science to show how ideas about age, drawn from nineteenth century views of social progress, intertwined with explanations of gender differences to construct the adolescent girl... This complex book will be the standard reference for those who want to know the scientific origins of modern perspectives on adolescent development. -- Kathleen W. Jones Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 2008 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. -- Ellen Herman Journal of American History 2008
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. ''Laws of Life'': Developing Youth in Antebellum America
2. ''Persistence'' versus ''Periodicity'': From Puberty to Adolescence in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Debate over Coeducation
3. From ''Budding Girl'' to ''Flapper Americana Novissima'': G. Stanley Hall's Psychology of Female Adolescence
4. ''New Girls for Old'': Psychology Constructs the Normal Adolescent Girl
5. Adolescent Girlhood Comes of Age? The Emergence of the Culture Concept in American Anthropology
Epilogue
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
