Act Your Age! : A Cultural Construction of Adolescence (Paperback, 2 ed)

Acknowledgments, Series Editor’s Introduction Michael W. Apple, Introduction Troubling Teenagers 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.Cold War Containments: Freedom, Youth, and Identity in the 1950s 6."Before Their Time" Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development 7. Our Guys/Good Guys Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power 8. When the Romance Is Gone…Youth Development In New Times 9. Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being Toward Untimely Teenagers Afterword to the Second Edition Notes References Author Index Subject Index