000			03079cam a2200397 i 4500
001			2014040715
003			DLC
005			20190729105602.0
008			141205s2015 mau b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2014040715
020			_a9780674047679 _q(cloth: _qalkaline paper)
042			_apcc
043			_an-us---
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dMvI
050	0	0	_aHQ799.95 _b.M56 2015
082	0	0	_a305.240973 _223
100	1		_aMintz, Steven, _d1953-
245	1	4	_aThe prime of life : _ba history of modern adulthood / _cSteven Mintz.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2015.
300			_axvi, 409 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
948			_au379967
949			_aHQ799.95 .M56 2015 _wLC _c1 _hEY8Z _i33039001353837
596			_a1
903			_a27904
999			_c27904 _d27904