| Description |
xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development |
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: welcome to middle age! / Richard A. Shweder -- Midlife discourses in the twentieth-century United States: an essay on the sexuality, ideology, and politics of "middle-ageism" / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Deconstructing the change: female maturation in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock -- Search for middle age in India / Sudhir Kakar -- Staus reversal: the coming of aging in Samoa / Bradd Shore -- Return of the "white man's burden": the moral discourse of anthropology and the domestic life of Hindu women / Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder. |
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Fertility and maturity in Africa: Gusii parents in middle adulthood / Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine -- Children of the 1960s at midlife: generational identity and the family adaptive project / Thomas S. Weisner and Lucinda P. Bernheimer -- Place and race: midlife experience in Harlem / Katherine Newman. |
| Subject |
Middle age -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Shweder, Richard A.
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| ISBN |
0226756076 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226756084 paper alkaline paper |
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