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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of figures
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 3. Spiritual maturity and childishness in Protestant England, c.1600–60
    1. Measuring age
    2. The mature minister
    3. Conclusion
    4. Notes
    5. References
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Afterword: Against adulthood
    1. Notes
    2. References
  20. Index

Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall
  6. Historicising adulthood
  7. Adulthood and chronological age
  8. Adulthood through time: static, idealised, oppressive
  9. Chapter summaries and conclusion
  10. Notes
  11. References
  12. 1.    ‘Middle age’ in the Middle Ages of western Europe, 1300–1500
  13. Deborah Youngs
  14. Historiography
  15. Conceptualising middle age in the Middle Ages
  16. A period of uncertainty?
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. 2.    ‘The most constant and settled part of our life’?: Adulthood and the ages of man in early modern England
  21. Maria Cannon
  22. Introduction
  23. ‘Adulthood’ as a stage of man’s life
  24. Achieving perfection? Adulthood as a stage of change and development
  25. Ages of woman?
  26. Conclusion
  27. Notes
  28. References
  29. 3.    Spiritual maturity and childishness in Protestant England, c.1600–60
  30. Emily E. Robson
  31. Measuring age
  32. The mature minister
  33. Conclusion
  34. Notes
  35. References
  36. 4.    The rising generation and the fogram: Locating adulthood in eighteenth-century England
  37. Barbara Crosbie
  38. Language and the life cycle
  39. Age-appropriate behaviour
  40. The rising generation
  41. Conclusion
  42. Notes
  43. References
  44. 5.    Seduction suits and gendered adulthood in the civil court systems of the early United States, 1820–50
  45. Holly N.S. White
  46. Early American definitions of gendered adulthood
  47. Seduction suits in the early United States
  48. Conclusion
  49. Notes
  50. References
  51. 6.    ‘They’re not children anymore’: Juveniles as adult defendants in US criminal justice, 1786–2000
  52. Jack Hodgson
  53. Children and the death penalty
  54. The rise of juvenile courts
  55. Herbert Niccolls Jr
  56. The babes of San Quentin
  57. The tough-on-crime era
  58. Conclusion
  59. Notes
  60. References
  61. 7.    ‘Childish, adolescent and recherché’: Psychoanalysis and maturity in psychological selection boards, c.1940s–60s
  62. Grace Whorrall-Campbell
  63. The selection boards
  64. Maturity and leadership
  65. Maturity and sexuality
  66. Maturity and emotions
  67. Maturity and democracy
  68. Conclusion
  69. Notes
  70. References
  71. 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
  72. Kristin Hay
  73. The development of family planning services in Scotland
  74. Who were ‘the unmarried’ in 1970s Scotland?
  75. Gender and the unmarried
  76. Conclusion
  77. Notes
  78. References
  79. 9.    African-Caribbean and South Asian adolescents, adulthood and the ‘generation gap’ in late Cold War Britain, c.1970–89
  80. Laura Tisdall
  81. Schooling and education
  82. Girls, marriage and motherhood
  83. The ‘generation gap’
  84. Conclusion
  85. Notes
  86. References
  87. 10.  Marriage, intimacy and adulthood in disabled people’s lives and activism in twentieth-century Britain
  88. Lucy Delap
  89. Intimate testimonials
  90. Normalisation
  91. Handidate
  92. Limits to change
  93. Conclusions
  94. Notes
  95. References
  96. 11.  A road of one’s own: The rejection of standard adulthood in US emerging adult films
  97. Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín
  98. Becoming an adult today
  99. When you grow up your heart dies: onscreen rejections of standard adulthood
  100. Conclusion
  101. Notes
  102. References
  103. Afterword: Against adulthood
  104. Kristine Alexander
  105. Notes
  106. References
  107. Index

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