02858cam a2200301 i 4500 123105 20230410120715.0 160906s2015 maua 000 0 eng 2014040715 9780674047679 (cloth : alkaline paper) HQ 799.95 M667p 2015 305.240973 Mintz, Steven, 1953- The prime of life : a history of modern adulthood / Steven Mintz. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. xvi, 409 p. ; 25 cm 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 parenthood -- Finding fulfillment in work -- The angst of adulthood -- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood. "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. 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. Adultos mayores Aspectos sociales Estados Unidos. Adultos mayores Calidad de vida. Vejez Aspectos sociales Estados Unidos. lcc bk 50285 50285 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 HQ 799.95 M667p 2015 00000116380 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk