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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Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
1998
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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. |
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Beschreibung: | XVII, 302 S. graph. Darst. |
ISBN: | 0226756076 0-226-75607-6 0226756084 0-226-75608-4 |