Welcome to Middle Age! and other cultural fictions

The idea of "midlife," and particularly the decline associated with the period, has become widespread in Euro-American culture. The symptoms of middle age are equally pervasive: back pain, mortgage payments, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This pathology of midlife has even...

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Weitere Verfasser: Shweder, Richard A. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 1998
Schriftenreihe:Studies on successful midlife development
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Zusammenfassung:The idea of "midlife," and particularly the decline associated with the period, has become widespread in Euro-American culture. The symptoms of middle age are equally pervasive: back pain, mortgage payments, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age. Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) is a welcome antidote to this epidemic, providing a refreshing examination of both this received idea of midlife and of alternative "fictions" that operate in cultures where middle age does not even constitute a life stage.
Beschreibung:XVII, 302 S.
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ISBN:0226756076
0-226-75607-6
0226756084
0-226-75608-4