Welcome to middle age! : (and other cultural fictions) / edited by Richard A. Shweder.
| Other author | Shweder, Richard A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. |
| Description | xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development. ^A691306 |
| Contents | Introduction: welcome to middle age! / Richard A. Shweder -- Midlife discourses in the twentieth-century United States: an essay on the sexuality, ideology, and politics of "middle-ageism" / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Deconstructing the change: female maturation in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock -- Search for middle age in India / Sudhir Kakar -- Staus reversal: the coming of aging in Samoa / Bradd Shore -- Return of the "white man's burden": the moral discourse of anthropology and the domestic life of Hindu women / Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder. |
| Contents | Fertility and maturity in Africa: Gusii parents in middle adulthood / Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine -- Children of the 1960s at midlife: generational identity and the family adaptive project / Thomas S. Weisner and Lucinda P. Bernheimer -- Place and race: midlife experience in Harlem / Katherine Newman. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97045115 |
| ISBN | 0226756076 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226756084 (paper : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ1059.4 .W45 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |