Suchergebnisse

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.

"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 Age! has 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 analyzes both historical and present social and political factors that produce the presumed "natural adolescent." This resulting seminal work in the field 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 edition is updated throughout and includes a full new chapter on 1950s-era assumptions about adolescence and the corresponding connections to teens today. As in all chapters, Lesko provides careful examination of 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"--Provided by publisher.

The problem(s) of men in early education / James R. King -- Topologies of masculinity : gendered spatialities of preadolescent boys / Jan Nespor -- Theorizing urban Black masculinity construction in an African-centered school / Khaula Murtadha-Watts -- Heterosexism in middle schools / Laurie Mandel and Charol Shakeshaft -- Textbooks, knowledge, and masculinity : examining patriarchy from within / Jeffrey J. Kuzmic -- Peer (dis)connections, school, and African American masculinities / Jeremy N. Price -- "New times" in an old country : emerging Black gay identities and (hetero)sexual discontents / Mairtin Mac an Ghaill -- Preparing to teach coach : tracking the gendered relations of dominance on and off the football field / Nancy Lesko -- Striving for educational rigor : acceptance of masculine privilege / Melody J. Shank -- What's this about a few good men? : negotiating gender in military education / Diane Diamond, Michael S. Kimmel, and Kirby Schroeder -- Tempering the masculinities of technology / John Willinsky -- The sounds of silence : notes on the personal politics of men's leadership in gender-based violence prevention education / Jackson Katz -- The "facts of the case" : gender equity for boys as a public policy issue / Lyn Yates -- Same as it never was : masculinity and identification in feminism / Brian Carr

This article critiques several taken-for-granted assumptions about adolescents' alleged distinctive nature and their universal, outside-of-history-and-society status. The article examines the social being of truth about adolescents by closely scrutinizing the confident characterizations that they are "coming of age," controlled by hormones, and peer oriented. A major strategy of this rereading of adolescence is to locate the seemingly timeless characteristics of adolescence within the sociohistorical context of their creation: the late 1800s and the concerns within the United States for social order, virility, national and international expansion, and the participation of the sciences of anthropology, psychology, and child study in the social anxieties and responses. This analysis employs rhetorical, historical, and feminist readings to call into question the accepted discourse about adolescent nature.