| Description |
xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical social thought |
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Critical social thought.
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| Contents |
1. Up and Down the Great Chain of Being: Progress and Degeneration in Children, Race, and Nation -- 2. Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century: Romancing and Administering Youth -- 3. Back to the Future: Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siecle Ideas -- 4. Time Matters in Adolescence -- 5. "Before Their Time": Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development -- 6. Our Guys/Good Guys: Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power -- 7. When the Romance is Gone ... Youth Development in New Times -- 8. Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being: Toward Untimely Teenagers |
| Summary |
Act Your Age examines and questions our tendency to label our youths as both endangered and dangerous creatures. Lesko analyzes both historical and present social and political factors that produce the presumed "natural adolescent." She also examines the concerns of nationalism, sexuality, and social order in terms of how they are projected onto the definitions of adolescents in the media, in schools, and in the home.--PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Adolescence.
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| LC no. |
00059260 |
| ISBN |
0415928346 paperback |
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0415928338 |
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