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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
    1. Historicising adulthood
    2. Adulthood and chronological age
    3. Adulthood through time: static, idealised, oppressive
    4. Chapter summaries and conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
  9. 1. ‘Middle age’ in the Middle Ages of western Europe, 1300–1500
    1. Historiography
    2. Conceptualising middle age in the Middle Ages
    3. A period of uncertainty?
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
  10. 2. ‘The most constant and settled part of our life’?: Adulthood and the ages of man in early modern England
    1. Introduction
    2. ‘Adulthood’ as a stage of man’s life
    3. Achieving perfection? Adulthood as a stage of change and development
    4. Ages of woman?
    5. Conclusion
    6. Notes
    7. References
  11. 3. Spiritual maturity and childishness in Protestant England, c.1600–60
    1. Measuring age
    2. The mature minister
    3. Conclusion
    4. Notes
    5. References
  12. 4. The rising generation and the fogram: Locating adulthood in eighteenth-century England
    1. Language and the life cycle
    2. Age-appropriate behaviour
    3. The rising generation
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
  13. 5. Seduction suits and gendered adulthood in the civil court systems of the early United States, 1820–50
    1. Early American definitions of gendered adulthood
    2. Seduction suits in the early United States
    3. Conclusion
    4. Notes
    5. References
  14. 6. ‘They’re not children anymore’: Juveniles as adult defendants in US criminal justice, 1786–2000
    1. Children and the death penalty
    2. The rise of juvenile courts
    3. Herbert Niccolls Jr
    4. The babes of San Quentin
    5. The tough-on-crime era
    6. Conclusion
    7. Notes
    8. References
  15. 7. ‘Childish, adolescent and recherché’: Psychoanalysis and maturity in psychological selection boards, c.1940s–60s
    1. The selection boards
    2. Maturity and leadership
    3. Maturity and sexuality
    4. Maturity and emotions
    5. Maturity and democracy
    6. Conclusion
    7. Notes
    8. References
  16. 8. ‘The Pill for an unmarried girl is hardly going to improve her character’: The impact of changing sexual behaviours on the construction of adulthood in Scotland, c.1968–80
    1. The development of family planning services in Scotland
    2. Who were ‘the unmarried’ in 1970s Scotland?
    3. Gender and the unmarried
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
  17. 9. African-Caribbean and South Asian adolescents, adulthood and the ‘generation gap’ in late Cold War Britain, c.1970–89
    1. Schooling and education
    2. Girls, marriage and motherhood
    3. The ‘generation gap’
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
  18. 10. Marriage, intimacy and adulthood in disabled people’s lives and activism in twentieth-century Britain
    1. Intimate testimonials
    2. Normalisation
    3. Handidate
    4. Limits to change
    5. Conclusions
    6. Notes
    7. References
  19. 11. A road of one’s own: The rejection of standard adulthood in US emerging adult films
    1. Becoming an adult today
    2. When you grow up your heart dies: onscreen rejections of standard adulthood
    3. Conclusion
    4. Notes
    5. References
  20. Afterword: Against adulthood
    1. Notes
    2. References
  21. Index

Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z

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