Time to Retire The Teen?
On Jon Savage's 'Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945'
The “teenager” is now eighty. The term in its modern, marketing sense was coined - or manufactured - by Seventeen magazine in 1944.
In the ‘seventeen’ years since this review of Savage’s book Teenage appeared (Independent on Sunday, 22/05/2007), the teen has been, if not retired, certainly shorn of her sheen.
As I ask in the piece, published a couple of m…