Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-322) and index.
Contents
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""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""