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To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. In the early twentieth century, American developmental citizenship presumed a gradual extension of rights based upon a naturalized trajectory that would lead individuals toward heterosexuality, gender complimentarity, and increasing social and political investment. Means changed dramatically through which psychological, pedagogical, and political discourses positioned adolescence, sexuality, and gender in relationship to national belonging.

Yet compliance with gender and sexual normativity as a marker of successful adjustment into adulthood persisted as a powerful precondition to full citizenship. Early modern youth negotiated multiple forms of patriarchal control and expanded the possibilities for adolescence. Modern adolescence was consolidated through expert discourses and structural, ideological, and institutional forces.

As centralized state management failed to reproduce patriotic, orderly, and eugenic nationalism, the teenager emerged, promising well-adjusted normativity and consumption. This, too, failed to capture youth. Adolescents now face both structures of modern adolescence and a generalized disillusionment with its promises. This thesis traces the emergence of adolescence as a distinct period of socio-sexual development at the turn of the century in France and the United States.

Rather than treat this category as timeless or universal, I argue that it was produced in response to particular concerns about the health and welfare of national populations. The adolescent is in this sense part of the history of what Michel Foucault has called biopolitics. By examining archives, scientific journals, and medical advice pamphlets, this project also calls attention to the transnational nature of the debates that helped to develop and shape this new liminal body.

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I begin by examining the work of Alfred Fournier , who in his pioneering work on syphilis and other venereal diseases began to call attention to that moment at which young males are no longer children but not yet adults. This moment of intense change marked, for Fournier, a period of malleability where education could have a potent and prophylactic impact.

Simultaneously, the international scientific community, at two conferences held to grapple with the social ramifications of venereal disease, articulated an understanding of young male bodies as invested with a potential for both social harm and hygienic reform.