Table of Contents

Introduction. 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: Contemporary Model Middle Schools Recirculate fin de siecle Ideas 4. Time Matters in Adolescence 5. 'Before Their Time': Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development 6. Our Guys/Good Guys: Playing With High School Athletic Privilege and Power 7. When the Romance is Gone: Youth Development in New Times 8.Cutting Free From the Great Chain of Being: Towards Untimely Teenagers