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Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions)
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Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions) Paperback - 1998

by Richard A. Shweder (Editor)

Many of us believe we recognize the symptoms of middle age--lower back pain, mortgages, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. WELCOME TO MIDDLE AGE! explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation alongside the alternative "fictions" that represent the life course in other regions of the world where middle age does not exist. Illustrated.


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Many of us believe we recognize the symptoms of middle age: lower back pain, mortgages, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This particular construction of midlife, most often rendered in chronological, biological, and medical terms, has become an accepted reality to European-Americans and has recently spread to such non-Western capitals as Tokyo and New Delhi. Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation alongside the alternative "fictions" that represent the life course in other regions of the world where middle age does not exist. In this volume, anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and historians explore topics ranging from the Western ideology of "midlife decline" to cultural representations of mature adulthood that operate without the category of middle age. The result is a fascinating, panoramic collection that explores the myths surrounding and the representations of mature adulthood and of those years in the life span from thirty to seventy.

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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.

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  • Title Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions)
  • Author Richard A. Shweder (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 1998-08-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226756080 / 0226756084
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.03 x 0.68 in (22.91 x 15.32 x 1.73 cm)
  • Themes
    • Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle age - Cross-cultural studies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97045115
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.244
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