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“in 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented “a second birth.”
― Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
― Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
“To ignore those who stand out as harbingers in favor of those cleave to the status quo is to refuse engagement with the future if not to misunderstand the nature of youth itself”
― Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
― Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
“Social control through consumerism might have been more benign than through more totalitarian methods, but it set up different kinds of distortions that were increasingly enacted in the deep oscillation between hedonism and puritanism.”
― Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
― Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
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