Welcome to Middle Age!
(And Other Cultural Fictions)
Will be published approx. on 3. August 1998
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-226-75607-3 (ISBN)
Description
The symptoms of middle age are often defined in terms of lower back pain, mortgages, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This construction of "midlife", most often rendered in chronological, biological and medical terms, has become an accepted reality to European Americans, and has spread to non-Western capitals such as Tokyo and New Delhi. This study explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation compared to other cultures where "middle age" does not exist. It examines topics ranging from the Western ideology of "midlife decline", to cultural representations of mature adulthood which ignore middle age. It also looks at the myths surrounding the life span from 30 to 70.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 24 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-75607-3 (9780226756073)
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Content
Preface by Richard A. Shweder Introduction: Welcome to Middle Age! by Richard A. Shweder 1: Midlife Discourses in the Twentieth-Century United States: An Essay on the Sexuality, Ideology, and Politics of "Middle-Ageism" Margaret Morganroth Gullette 2: Deconstructing the Change: Female Maturation in Japan and North America Margaret Lock 3: The Search for Middle Age in India Sudhir Kakar 4: Status Reversal: The Coming of Aging in Samoa Bradd Shore 5: The Return of the "White Man's Burden": The Moral Discourse of Anthropology and the Domestic Life of Hindu Women Usha Menon, Richard A. Shweder. 6: Fertility and Maturity in Africa: Gusii Parents in Middle Adulthood Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine. 7: Children of the 1960s at Midlife: Generational Identity and the Family Adaptive Project Thomas S. Weisner, Lucinda P. Bernheimer. 8: Place and Race: Midlife Experience in Harlem Katherine Newman Contributors Index