Age in America : The Colonial Era to the Present / / edited by Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : New York University Press, , [2015]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021; ©[2015]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.260973
• Soggetto topico: Social conditions; Social classes; Political culture; Identity (Psychology); Citizenship; Aging - Social aspects; Age - Political aspects; Age groups; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Discrimination & Race Relations; Political culture - United States - History; Citizenship - United States - History; Aging - Social aspects - United States - History; Coming of age - Social aspects - United States - History; Identity (Psychology) - United States - History; Social classes - United States - History; Age groups - United States - History; Age - Political aspects - United States - History; Age - Social aspects - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States; United States Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Persona (resp. second.): SyrettNicholas L.; FieldCorinne T. <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Age in early America -- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century -- Part III. Age in modern America.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures--from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas--Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship"--Publisher's website.
• Titolo autorizzato: Age in America
• ISBN: 1-4798-0683-8; 1-4798-4059-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810192203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II