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Notes
table of contents
Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall
- Historicising adulthood
- Adulthood and chronological age
- Adulthood through time: static, idealised, oppressive
- Chapter summaries and conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 1. ‘Middle age’ in the Middle Ages of western Europe, 1300–1500
- Deborah Youngs
- Historiography
- Conceptualising middle age in the Middle Ages
- A period of uncertainty?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 2. ‘The most constant and settled part of our life’?: Adulthood and the ages of man in early modern England
- Maria Cannon
- Introduction
- ‘Adulthood’ as a stage of man’s life
- Achieving perfection? Adulthood as a stage of change and development
- Ages of woman?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3. Spiritual maturity and childishness in Protestant England, c.1600–60
- Emily E. Robson
- Measuring age
- The mature minister
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4. The rising generation and the fogram: Locating adulthood in eighteenth-century England
- Barbara Crosbie
- Language and the life cycle
- Age-appropriate behaviour
- The rising generation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5. Seduction suits and gendered adulthood in the civil court systems of the early United States, 1820–50
- Holly N.S. White
- Early American definitions of gendered adulthood
- Seduction suits in the early United States
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6. ‘They’re not children anymore’: Juveniles as adult defendants in US criminal justice, 1786–2000
- Jack Hodgson
- Children and the death penalty
- The rise of juvenile courts
- Herbert Niccolls Jr
- The babes of San Quentin
- The tough-on-crime era
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 7. ‘Childish, adolescent and recherché’: Psychoanalysis and maturity in psychological selection boards, c.1940s–60s
- Grace Whorrall-Campbell
- The selection boards
- Maturity and leadership
- Maturity and sexuality
- Maturity and emotions
- Maturity and democracy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 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
- Kristin Hay
- The development of family planning services in Scotland
- Who were ‘the unmarried’ in 1970s Scotland?
- Gender and the unmarried
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 9. African-Caribbean and South Asian adolescents, adulthood and the ‘generation gap’ in late Cold War Britain, c.1970–89
- Laura Tisdall
- Schooling and education
- Girls, marriage and motherhood
- The ‘generation gap’
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 10. Marriage, intimacy and adulthood in disabled people’s lives and activism in twentieth-century Britain
- Lucy Delap
- Intimate testimonials
- Normalisation
- Handidate
- Limits to change
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- 11. A road of one’s own: The rejection of standard adulthood in US emerging adult films
- Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín
- Becoming an adult today
- When you grow up your heart dies: onscreen rejections of standard adulthood
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Afterword: Against adulthood
- Kristine Alexander
- Notes
- References
- Index