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Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
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Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence Hardcover - 2012

by 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 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.

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  • Title Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
  • Author Nancy Lesko
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2 Revised
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2012-03-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780415887618 / 0415887615
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Adolescence, EDUCATION / General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011043122
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.235

About the author

Nancy Lesko is Maxine Greene Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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