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The dominion of youth: adolescence and the making of a modern Canada, 1920-1950

The dominion of youth, 2008, p.ix-ix

ISBN: 9781554580798 ;ISBN: 155458079X ;ISBN: 9780889204881 ;ISBN: 0889204888 ;ISBN: 1554581516 ;ISBN: 9781554581511 ;EISBN: 9781554580798 ;EISBN: 155458079X ;EISBN: 9781554586578 ;EISBN: 1554586577 ;OCLC: 244764487 ;OCLC: 753479477 ;LCCallNum: HQ799.C3 C64 2006eb

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  • Title:
    The dominion of youth: adolescence and the making of a modern Canada, 1920-1950
  • Author: Comacchio, Cynthia R
  • Subjects: 20th century ; Adolescents ; Canada ; Cultural development ; Customs & Traditions ; HISTORY ; Intergenerational relations ; Nation building ; Popular culture ; Post-Confederation (1867-) ; Social life and customs ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Teenagers ; Youth ; Youth organizations
  • Is Part Of: The dominion of youth, 2008, p.ix-ix
  • Description: Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a "discovery" of the early twentieth century, it did assume an identifiably modern form during the years between the Great War and 1950. The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 captures what it meant for young Canadians to inhabit this liminal stage of life within the context of a young nation caught up in the self-formation and historic transformation that would make modern Canada. Because the young at this time were seen paradoxically as both the hope of the nation and the source of its possible degeneration, new policies and institutions were developed to deal with the "problem of youth." This history considers how young Canadians made the transition to adulthood during a period that was "developmental"—both for youth and for a nation also working toward individuation. During the years considered here, those who occupied this "dominion" of youth would see their experiences more clearly demarcated by generation and culture than ever before. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio offers the first detailed study of adolescence in early-twentieth-century Canada and demonstrates how young Canadians of the period became the nation's first modern teenagers.
  • Publisher: Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Format: 1 electronic text (ix, 298 p.)
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9781554580798
    ISBN: 155458079X
    ISBN: 9780889204881
    ISBN: 0889204888
    ISBN: 1554581516
    ISBN: 9781554581511
    EISBN: 9781554580798
    EISBN: 155458079X
    EISBN: 9781554586578
    EISBN: 1554586577
    OCLC: 244764487
    OCLC: 753479477
    LCCallNum: HQ799.C3 C64 2006eb
  • Source: Canada Commons: Books & Documents
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