Welcome to Middle Age!
Subtitle: (And Other Cultural Fictions) (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 3, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226756080
Subjects: Adults; Cultural studies; Social, group or collective psychology; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; USA; Aging - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Developmental - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General; Sociology - General; Cross-cultural studies; Middle age
First sentence: Looking over the vast explosion of midlife discourse, both popular and scholarly, that has become such a feature of seventies', eighties', and nineties' common sense in the United States, a cultural inquirer cannot help but observe that the boom has created as well as targeted an audience for the messages.