Age in America

Name: Age in America
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781479831913
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The Colonial Era to the Present

Szerző: Nicholas L Syrett

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in...

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Szerző

Nicholas L Syrett

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

352

EAN

9781479831913

ISBN

1479831913

Enbook ID

09240887

Kiadó

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Súly

454

Méretek

152 x 229 x 20

Teljes leírás

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.

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