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Article: A History of Young People in the West, vol. 1, Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 1999
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Edited by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by Camille Naish (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997, vi plus 396pp. $35.00).
The history of the social and cultural construction of "youth" as a distinctive stage in life is the theme unifying this illustrated collection of eighteen essays on representations of adolescents and young adults. Indeed, the editors emphasize that youth, in comparison to other life stages, is quintessentially a social construct, positioned between childish dependency and adult autonomy, and between sexual immaturity and maturity. Often entailing intellectual or vocational training and ...