Books

Adolescents

Managing To Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success , by Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Thomas D. Cook, Jacquelynne Eccles, Glen H. Elder Jr., & Arnold Sameroff (The University of Chicago Press, 5801 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637; 305 pp., $32.50 hardcover) . From hundreds of interviews with inner-city teenagers and their families in Philadelphia, the authors attempt to explain how and why some families are able to steer their children out of poverty despite low incomes and high-risk neighborhoods.

Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger , by Lyn Mikel Brown (Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138; 288 pp., $24.95 hardcover) . Challenges stereotypical ideas about femininity and the popular view of adolescent girls as passive and silenced. The book is based on the author's yearlong conversations with white junior high and middle school girls--from both working-poor and middle-class families--who adopt some expectations about gender...