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008			160906s2015 maua 000 0 eng
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020			_a9780674047679 (cloth : alkaline paper)
050	1	4	_aHQ 799.95 _bM667p 2015
082	0	0	_a305.240973
100	1		_aMintz, Steven, _d1953-
245	1	4	_aThe prime of life : _ba history of modern adulthood / _cSteven Mintz.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2015.
300			_axvi, 409 p. ; _c25 cm
505	0		_aPrologue: The voyage of life -- The tangled transition to adulthood -- Achieving intimacy -- I do : the evolution of marriage -- I don't : alternatives to marriage -- The trials of parenthood -- Finding fulfillment in work -- The angst of adulthood -- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood.
520	2		_a"The first history of American adulthood, The Prime of Life examines how succeeding generations of Americans dealt with the primary tasks of adulthood: Navigating the passage from youth to maturity, achieving intimacy and connection, raising the next generation, experiencing work's pleasures and pains, and wresting meaning from life's losses and stresses. Highly attentive to class, ethnicity, gender, and race, this book draws upon a wealth of private letters and other previously untapped sources to challenge a host of misconceptions that distort public thinking today. These include the myths that the transition to adulthood was smoother and more seamless in the past and that adulthood was more stable and predictable than it has since become. But this book does something more. It underscores women's historical role in driving fundamental changes in attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, childrearing, and work. It demonstrates the ways that social class has differentiated adult experience. It also reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often treated as fit only for self-help books or novels dealing with the travails of the suburban middle class. It not only recaptures adulthood's joys and disappointments, its hopes and frustrated expectations, its soaring dreams and bitter regrets, it demonstrates that development across the life span is shaped less by psychology than by cultural and historical circumstances"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aAdulthood _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAdulthood _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aLife change events _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aLife cycle, Human _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions.
650		4	_aAdultos mayores _xAspectos sociales _zEstados Unidos.
650		4	_aAdultos mayores _xCalidad de vida.
650		4	_aVejez _xAspectos sociales _zEstados Unidos.
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