Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of AdolescenceAct Your Ageexamines 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. |
Contents
Up and Down the Great Chain of Being | 19 |
Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century | 49 |
Back to the Future | 91 |
Time Matters in Adolescence | 107 |
Before Their Time | 135 |
Our GuysGood Guys | 149 |
When the Romance Is Gone Youth Development | 171 |
Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being | 189 |
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