Welcome to middle age! : (and other cultural fictions) / edited by Richard A. Shweder.
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...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Internet Archive) |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1998.
|
| Series: | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages : illustrations) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |