Age in America : The Colonial Era to the Present /

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Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives-precise moments when our rights and opportunities change-when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adult...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Achenbaum, W. Andrew (Contribuidor), Cantú, Norma E. (Contribuidor), Cole, Timothy (Contribuidor), Field, Corinne T. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Graebner, William (Contribuidor), Grinspan, Jon (Contribuidor), Landrum, Shane (Contribuidor), Little, Ann M. (Contribuidor), Oda, Yuki (Contribuidor), Schmidt, James D. (Contribuidor), Schoenfeld, Stuart (Contribuidor), Sundue, Sharon Braslaw (Contribuidor), Syrett, Nicholas L. (Contribuidor, Editor ), de Schweinitz, Rebecca (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Age groups > History > United States.
Age groups > United States > History.
Age > Political aspects > History > United States.
Age > Political aspects > United States > History.
Age > Social aspects > History > United States.
Age > Social aspects > United States > History.
Aging > Social aspects > History > United States.
Aging > Social aspects > United States > History.
Citizenship > History > United States.
Citizenship > United States > History.
Coming of age > Social aspects > History > United States.
Coming of age > Social aspects > United States > History.
Identity (Psychology) > History > United States.
Identity (Psychology) > United States > History.
Political culture > History > United States.
Political culture > United States > History.
Social classes > History > United States.
Social classes > United States > History.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Age in Early America
  • 1. "Keep Me with You, So That I Might Not Be Damned"
  • 2. "Beyond the Time of White Children"
  • Part II. Age in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • 3. "If You Have the Right to Vote at 21 Years, Then I Have"
  • 4. A Birthday Like None Other
  • 5. Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century
  • 6. From Family Bibles to Birth Certificates
  • 7. "Rendered More Useful"
  • 8. "A Day Too Late"
  • Part III. Age in Modern America
  • 9. Age and Retirement
  • 10. "The Proper Age for Suffrage"
  • 11. "Old Enough to Live" Age, Alcohol, and Adulthood in the United States, 1970-1984
  • 12. Age and Identity Reaching Thirteen in the Lives of American Jews
  • 13. A Chicana Third Space Feminist Reading of Chican@ Life Cycle Markers
  • 14. Delineating Old Age
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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