Open AccessOffspring as Enemy? How Canada's National Magazine Confronted Youth and Youth Culture in the 1960s
Author(s) -
Jaymie Patricia Heilman
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
crossing boundaries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1718-4487
pISSN - 1711-053X
DOI - 10.21971/p7c30r
Subject(s) - baby boomers , construct (python library) , mythology , youth culture , generation gap , adversary , lost generation , psychology , political science , gender studies , sociology , history , law , demographic economics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , economics , programming language , archaeology , classics
The idea of a "generation-gap" is one of the principal features in the mythology of the 1960s. The construct implies that the response of parents to the social and cultural activism of their teenage baby-boomers, those born in the period 1946-1962, was systematically hostile and decidedly unsympathetic. An examination of the contents of the Canadian periodical Maclean's between the years 1959 and 1973, however, reveals a very different reaction towards youth. Attitudes in the magazine regarding youth culture were generally positive and frequently laudatory, thus calling into question the reality of the generation-gap.