...Youthfulness appears widely in Polybius as something whose failings and weakness can be disadvantageous for a leader, in spite of more positive examples of young men such as Aratus of Sicyon and Scipio Aemilianus. The presentation of the youth of Philip V in Books 4 and 5 is marked by negative...

...This chapter analyzes the law that governs juvenile interrogation. The U.S. Supreme Court has emphasized that youthfulness heightens vulnerability and has directed the close scrutiny of juveniles' confessions. Despite concerns about youthfulness, the Court applies the legal standard for adults...

...0 09 09 2004 The youngest of the recognized literary forms, and in other ways the most ‘modern’ in tendency, was the short story. Introducing her anthology, The Faber Book of Modern Stories (1937), Elizabeth Bowen highlighted this youthfulness, likening it to that of the cinema...

...There has been a proliferation of interest in youth issues in recent years, and Muslim youth in particular. Young Muslims have been thrust into the global spotlight in relation to questions about security, employment, migration, multiculturalism, conflict, human rights, and citizenship. This book...

...In Muslim societies, youth politics has espoused two contradictory sentiments: youth as a source of fear and hope. On the one hand, youths are seen as the foot soldiers of radical Islamism and violent politics, and on the other, as agents of democratic change and an open society. Through...

... work. Finally, it examines age masking as an intrinsic component of age work in societies where the appearance of youthfulness matters a lot. In this chapter, age work has been shown to shadow much of our lifecourse. We do not simply ‘get older’, dispassionately ticking off the years...

... selfhood, particularly in the twentieth century. A third and final argument illustrates how assessments of male beauty allowed Britons to valorize youthfulness, Whiteness, and able-bodiedness. Traversing topics as diverse as nineteenth-century physiognomy, facial reconstructive surgery in the First World...

...Muslim youth have assumed a central, if complex, place in the politics and cultures and politics of the global South and North. Their cultural behavior can be understood as representing a new arena of contestation for power in a global era. In conventional wisdom, a combination of youth bulge...

...This chapter looks at the issue of “young” Muslims from the perspective of pious Muslim women in two European settings: France and Germany. It concentrates, on the one hand, on the ways in which these young women construct a notion of youthfulness in response to a dominant secular “emancipation...