Sensation and the Making of New Zealand Adolescence
Brickell, Chris
This item is not available in full-text via OUR Archive.
If you are the author of this item, please contact us if you wish to discuss making the full text publicly available.
Publisher
Cite this item:
Brickell, C. (2014). Sensation and the Making of New Zealand Adolescence. Journal of Social History, 47(4), 994–1020. doi:10.1093/jsh/shu027
Permanent link to OUR Archive version:
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6529
Abstract:
Many historians associate adolescent pleasures and subcultures with the mid-twentieth century. Sensations and their personifications, this article suggests, also formed a focus for commentary and experience during the second half of the nineteenth century and the years leading up to the First World War. There was a noisy public discussion around adolescence in New Zealand in which notions of sensation and pleasure played a key role. In scrutinizing a number of young, sensation-loving characters—larrikins and larrikinesses, mashers, dudes and the flapper—the discussion considers the intersections of social changes (urbanization and gendered work and leisure), cultural influences (literature and language), the significance of gender, and anxieties over morality and propriety. The making of New Zealand adolescence, I suggest, involved broad social transformations as well as the local rearticulation of internationally-inflected cultural ideas about sensation and its social control.
Date:
2014
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
994-1020
Rights Statement:
© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
Keywords:
adolescence; history; New Zealand; pleasure
Research Type:
Journal Article
Languages:
English
Collections
- Sociology, Gender and Social Work [227]
- Journal Article [781]
The following licence files are associated with this item: