Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Ambrose, Linda M.
Article Excerpt
Cynthia Comacchio, The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press 2006)
AT FIRST I EXPECTED Cynthia Comacchio's new book on youth to be a welcome and much-needed Canadian version of Kelly Schrum's Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture 1920-1945 (New York 2004). In that important book, Schrum traced the emergence of American female teen culture, arguing that teenaged girls helped to shape an evolving consumer culture and that there was a stage between childhood and adulthood recognized by pundits, marketers, and manufacturers as early as the 1920s. While reaching a similar conclusion about consumer culture on this side of the border, The Dominion of Youth offers much more. One of the most obvious differences between this book and its American counterpart is that it deals with both sexes, and while Schrum's study fails to account for how youth managed to finance their newfound preoccupation with consumerism, Comacchio does not overlook the various forms of paid employment young Canadians took up during their teen years. Indeed, Comacchio goes even further when she ties the emergence of youth culture in...
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