Act Your Age! A Cultural Construction of Adolescence

Name: Act Your Age! A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
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ISBN: 9780415887625

ISBN-10: 0415887623

ISBN-13: 9780415887625

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Nancy Lesko

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Are our current ways of talking about "the problem of adolescence" really that different than those of past generations? For the past decade, Act Your Agehas provided a provocative and now classic analysis of the accepted ways of viewing teens. By employing a groundbreaking "history of the present" methodology that resists traditional chronology, author Nancy Lesko Lesko analyzes both historical and present social and political factors that produce the presumed "natural adolescent." This resulting seminal work in the fireld of youth study, forces readers to rethink the dominant interpretations on the social construction of adolescence from the 19th century through the present day. This new…

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List price: $46.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Series Editor's Introduction


Introduction: Troubling Teenagers



Up and Down the Great Chain of Being: Progress and Degeneration in Children, Race, and Nation



Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century: Romancing and Administering Youth



Back to the Future: Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siï¿½cle Ideas



Time Matters in Adolescence



Cold War Containments: Freedom, Youth, and Identity in the 1950s



"Before Their Time": Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development



Our Guys/Good Guys: Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power



When the Romance Is Gone… Youth Development in New Times



Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being: Toward Untimely Teenagers


Afterword to the Second Edition


Notes


References


Author Index


Subject Index