Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930

• Main Author: DeLuzio, Crista (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2007
• Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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, D...