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Author Mintz, Steven, 1953- author.

Title The prime of life : a history of modern adulthood / Steven Mintz.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 409 pages)
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: 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 parenting -- Finding fulfillment in work -- The angst of adulthood -- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood.
Summary Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.
Subject Adulthood -- United States -- History.
Adulthood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Life change events -- United States -- History.
Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mintz, Steven, 1953- Prime of life. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015 9780674047679 (DLC) 2014040715 (OCoLC)893709458
ISBN 9780674425668 (electronic bk.)
0674425669 (electronic bk.)
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