Re: Scholarship Central to the History of Childhood and Youth
For discussions tied to youth/ understandings of youth, Stanley Cohen's "Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers," as well as the work of Stuart Hall, might be useful.
Re: Scholarship Central to the History of Childhood and Youth
A solid bibliography. In the general category you might also consider Colin Ward, The Child in the City (1979, get the illustrated edition) an unsurpassed post WWII urban study, though inevitably London-centric.
Re: Scholarship Central to the History of Childhood and Youth
On sexuality, perhaps Kathryn Bond Stockton's The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Series Q, Duke UP, 2009) --
