Index

A
Aberdeen, Scotland, 178, 184
ableism, 13, 224, 231n7
abortion, 172, 248
abuse, 130, 205, 218, 219, 222, 228
sexual, 227
activism, 131, 197, 199, 203, 205–207, 219, 221, 222, 228–9
Addington, Mary, 133, 135
adolescence, 2–5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 25, 29, 30, 54, 94, 156, 175, 179, 181, 182, 186, 194–5, 197, 199, 200, 205, 206, 207, 240, 243
and disability, 229
definitions of, 91–3,
extension of, 13
opposed to adulthood, 203, 239
physical signs of, 71
stages of, 202
adulthood
and ‘ages of man’, 45–59
in American court systems, 111–22, 127–40
and chronological age. See age
in disabled people’s lives, 215–30
in eighteenth-century England, 89–105
emerging, 8, 13, 239–52
gendered understandings of, 112–15
historicisation of, 3–5
in late Cold War Britain, 193–208
as problematic concept, 259–62
rejection of, 239–52
as stage of change and development, 50–55
through time, 8–11
in twentieth-century Scotland, 171–87
young. See ‘young adulthood’
‘adultification’, 11, 130, 138, 194, 199, 229, 260
Aeneas, 48
African Americans, 7, 12, 112, 130–31, 136, 140
African-Caribbeans, 12, 13, 193–208, 260
Afro-Caribbean Education Resource Project (ACER), 195–6, 198, 201, 203, 204, 206
age
chronological, 1, 2, 4, 5–8, 9–10, 29, 29, 30, 46, 49, 71, 78, 79, 90, 94, 115, 116, 121, 152, 193, 216, 260
cultural, 46, 90
of discretion. See discretion, age of
‘double’, 6
functional, 5, 6, 46, 90, 260
‘mental’, 137, 216
middle. See middle age
old. See old age
‘age consciousness’, 7
ageing, 26, 29, 31, 36, 47, 52, 54, 55, 58, 73, 90, 93, 96, 97–8, 99, 117, 260, 262
‘ages of man’, 8, 9, 12, 29, 45–59
‘ages of woman’, 55–8
alcohol, consumption of, 1
Alighieri, Dante, 35, 36
Anstey, Christopher, 101
apprentices, 91, 113
Aristotle, 30, 51, 55, 70
Arminianism, 73
Arnett, Jeffrey, 8, 181, 239, 240, 241
asexuality, 217
Ash, John, 92, 93, 94
Asian Youth Movements (AYMs), 206
Asotin, Washington, 133, 134
asthma, 78
Augustine of Hippo, 34, 35
Austin, H. Z., 137
Austin, Texas, 246

B
‘baby boomers’, 171
Bacon, Francis, 75
Bailey, Nathan, 92, 93
Bainbridge, David, 26, 27
Bakersfield, California, 136
baptism, 72
Barr, Hugh, 116, 118
Barron, David, 227
bastardy, 115, 123n18
Bath, Somerset, 101
Battye, Louis, 216, 220
beards, 47–8
Beasley, Joshua Keith, 127
Bellers, Fulk, 77
Benson, John, 26, 27
Bentick, John, 92, 94
Birgitta of Sweden, 37
birth control. See contraception
Board of Control, 217
Bolles, Eunice, 129
Borja, Jesus, 136–7, 139
Botelho, Lynn, 72, 90
Bowlby, John, 153
Boys Town, Nebraska, 135–6
Brace, Charles Loring, 131
Bradford, Yorkshire, 205
Briggs, Lewis, 118, 119–20
Briggs, Rosanna, 119–20
Briggs v. Evans, 118
British Empire, 6, 7, 10, 11, 205
Brockham Park, Surrey, 154
Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna, 96, 100
Brook Advisory Service, 179
Broughton, Richard, 69
Brown, Fred, 226
Browne, Stella, 174
Bunyan, John, 55
Burgess, Anthony, 70–71, 72

C
California, 136, 137, 138
Calvinism, 67
Cammack, James, 133
canon law, 34
capital punishment. See death penalty
Carrier, Martha, 128
Carrier, Sarah, 128
Carrier, Thomas, 128
Cartwright, Thomas, 78
Catholicism, 69, 176, 218
Central America, 11–12
cerebral palsy, 215, 216, 217, 225
Chaderton, Laurence, 75
Chalmers, Rosalind, 220
‘child-savers’, 131
childbirth, 28, 200–201
childhood, 2, 9, 25, 30, 45–6, 50, 56, 92, 93, 103, 121, 156, 162, 194, 195, 200, 207, 216, 220, 227, 230, 243, 249, 261, 262
concepts of, 3
end of, 70–71, 90–91
hazards of, 28
innocence and, 128, 140, 260
institutionalised, 229
‘invention of’, 89
piety, 72–5
political understandings of, 5
psychoanalytical views of, 150, 159
right to, 135
stealing of, 10–11
as unstable, 8
childishness, 1, 3, 11, 12, 13, 35, 37, 69–70, 72, 73, 74, 77, 80, 135, 156, 159, 205
Choate, Jack, 70, 127
Christie, Evelyn G., 200
Christine de Pizan, 36
Cistercians, 4
citizenship, 2, 113
‘intimate’, 228
civil service, 149, 152–3, 155, 158, 261
Civil Service Selection Board, 13, 152, 155, 160, 161–2
Civil War, English, 68
Clark, Hugh, 75
Clarke, Samuel, 68, 75, 78, 79
class, 2, 90, 116, 128, 129, 132, 160, 262
middle, 10, 131, 133, 174, 180, 182, 262
upper, 131
working, 10, 114, 115, 180, 182, 197, 201, 202, 216, 218, 241, 262
Clever, William, 71
CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), 203
Collins, Christina, 177
colonialism, 10, 11, 14, 260
Columbia, District of, 131
Comenius, John Amos, 57
Communism, 160
conscience, 33
consent, 5, 116, 118, 119, 121, 160, 177, 180, 184, 202, 224, 261
age of, 6, 7, 91, 114, 176, 178, 228
contraception, 171–87, 224, 261
control, emotional, 150, 157, 159, 262
conversion, 34–5, 70, 77
Cooper, Thomas, 70
courts, juvenile, 11, 12, 13, 127–40
courtship, 173, 218, 226
Coverdale, Miles, 75
coverture, 114
COVID-19, 242
Craft, Ann, 223, 224, 227
Craft, Michael, 223, 224, 227
Crashaw, William, 69
creole languages, 195, 196
Crichton-Miller, Hugh, 151
criminality, 50, 128, 130, 131–2, 137, 138, 140
‘crip time’, 216
Critical Race Theory, 140
Cuffe, Henry, 47, 51, 52, 56, 58, 76
Culpepper, Nicholas, 57

D
Dafydd ap Gwilym, 32
Darling, Thomas, 73
Darly, Mattina, 97
Darrell, John, 73
dating agencies, 226
Davis, Ken, 226
Davis, Maggie, 226
De Vries, Hans Vredeman, 48
death penalty, 128–30, 135, 137
debt, 1
Declaration of the Rights of Mentally Disabled Persons, 221
Defoe, Daniel, 100, 102
deinstitutionalisation, 222
democracy, 6, 159–61
dependants, 30, 112, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120–21, 194, 229
Depression era, 133
disability, 2, 6, 10, 13, 137, 138, 215–30, 262
discretion, age of, 91, 92
Dod, John, 78
domestic violence, 228
Dove, Mary, 31, 52, 57
drugs, 140
Duffy, Clinton, 138
Dunfermline, Scotland, 171
Dyhouse, Carol, 173, 182, 183, 184

E
early modern period, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 45–59, 67–80, 197, 259, 261, 262
Edinburgh, Scotland, 171, 178, 179, 180, 182
Edmondson, D. L., 197, 199
education, 4, 10, 36, 51, 57, 72, 80, 137, 138, 172, 180, 185, 194, 195, 197–200, 202, 203, 205, 219, 228, 230, 240–41, 247, 260
higher, 171, 177, 186
schooling, 5, 197–200, 260
sex education. See sex education
spiritual, 75
Elton, Arthur, 158
Elyot, Thomas, 28–9, 30, 45, 46
enslaved people, 10, 11, 122n1, 130, 194, 260–61
‘emerging adult’ films, 8, 13, 239–52
employment, 4, 193, 216, 229, 261, 262
epilepsy, 217
eugenics, 174, 216, 231n7
Evans, John J., 119, 120
Ex Parte Beaver, 132
exorcism, 73
exploitation, 11, 12, 138, 194, 203, 205

F
Family Planning Association (FPA), 174–5, 179
family planning services. See contraception
fascism, 160
Fathers, Church, 35
Featley, Daniel, 78
femininity, 3, 4, 250
feminism, 174, 218, 228, 241
Black, 262
Fenning, Daniel, 92, 93
Fenton, Geffray, 51, 52
fertility, 27, 57, 58, 229
Fifth Monarchists, 68
financial crisis (2008), 1, 13, 242, 249
Fisher, Will, 47, 48
Flanagan, Edward, 135–6
Fokus scheme, 225
‘fograms’, 102, 105, 261
Fortescue, Thomas, 47, 49
Fox, Joshua, 226
Foxe, John, 77
France, 28, 36
Fresno, California, 136
Freudianism, 10, 151, 153
Froissart, Jean, 29, 32
frontal lobes, 2
Fulton Report (1968), 162
Furman v. Georgia, 130
Fürst, Paul, 56
Furstenberg, Frank F., 172, 173, 185

G
Garcia, Pedro, 136
Garland, John W., 119
Gataker, Thomas, 75–6, 79–80
Gellatly, John, 136
gender, 2, 4, 12, 46, 47, 90, 93, 104, 128, 129, 158, 159, 173, 186–7, 216, 223, 261–2
and adolescence, 92
and adulthood, 111–22
and life expectancy, 28
of boys, 48
nonconformity, 156
and the unmarried, 181–5
‘generation gap’, 203–207
Generation X, 239
Generation Z, 1, 13
generations, conflict between, 12, 172, 185, 206
Georgia (US state), 7
gerontocracy, 59, 73
Gerson, Jean, 34
Gibson, Lee Vernon, 137–8
Gillray, James, 103
Glasgow, Scotland, 176, 179, 183, 204
Goldfarb, Cardea, 139
Good Hope, Cape of, 6
Goodwin, Thomas, 69
Gordon, Thomas, 95, 96, 99
Gouge, William, 75–6, 78
Goulart, Simon, 74
Government of India Act (1935), 7
Gray, John, 218
Grays, Essex, 226
Great Recession (2008). See financial crisis (2008)
Great Reform Act (1832), 6
Grunwick Strike (1976–78), 200, 206
guardianship, legal, 111, 121, 135, 178, 183, 217
Guerrero, Rose, 136–7

H
Hale, Matthew, 91
Handsworth, Birmingham, 197, 206
Hardwick’s Marriage Act (1753), 91
Harrison, William, 69
Hartley, Roland, 136
Haywood, Eliza, 97–8
Health and Public Services Act (1968), 175
Heath, Kay, 27, 93
heteronormativity, 177, 227, 250
heterosexuality, 156, 157, 200, 217, 220, 227, 229, 230, 248
high school reunions, 249–50
higher education. See education
Hildersham, Arthur, 75, 76
Hinduism, 202, 208n12
Hodges, Thomas, 72
home ownership, 4, 246
homecoming narratives, 249, 251
homosexuality, 10, 13, 153, 156, 157, 227–8, 250, 261
Hoole, Charles, 57
Hoper, R., 48
Hornketh v. Barr, 116, 118
householders, adults as, 4, 50, 54, 56, 58, 59, 90
households, 48, 114, 117, 118, 177, 206
house prices, 1
Human Rights Act (1998), 228
humorism, 47
Hunt, Judy, 219
Hunt, Paul, 219–20, 225

I
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), 28, 29
Ibrahim, Habiba, 130, 262
Idaho, 135
Illinois Juvenile Court Act (1898), 131
In re: Winship, 132
independence, legal, 5, 30, 91, 111, 114–15, 117, 118–19, 120–21
Independence, Declaration of, 113
India, 6, 10, 11, 194, 205, 261
Indian Citizenship Act (1924), 7
Indian-Caribbeans, 195, 198, 203
Indigenous populations, 11, 201, 207, 260, 261
infantilisation, 1, 173, 182, 186, 216, 261
intersectionality, 2, 112, 259, 262
intimacy, 9, 13, 215–30, 262
IQ (Intelligence Quotient), 223
Isidore of Seville, 29, 30, 51, 52
Islam, 202, 208n12
Italy, 28

J
Jamaica, 10, 197, 201, 204, 208n12, 224
Jaques, Elliot, 27, 35
Jenkyn, William, 71, 72, 73
Jim Crow laws, 131
Johnson, Samuel, 92, 93–4, 98
Jones, Emrys, 160
Judaism, 32, 35
Julian of Norwich, 36
Jung, Carl, 155
Jurdian, Ignatius, 77

K
Kashmir, 205
Kersey, John, 91, 93
Kilby, Richard, 67, 71
Knox, Vicesimus, 98–9
Kuykendahl, Elgin, 134, 135

L
La Fane, Pamela, 219, 225
labour, 10, 112, 114–15, 117, 123n17, 219, 254n26
Lamson, Armene, 135
Langhamer, Claire, 157, 173
Laurens, André du, 73
leadership, 48, 49, 150, 152–3, 154, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 225
Lee, Essex, 70
Leeds, Yorkshire, 199
Lenroot, Katherine, 132
Lenton, Francis, 71
life expectancy, 28, 29
life writing, 215, 219, 220, 227, 260
Loe, William, 78
Logan, Margaret, 117, 118
Logan, Sarah, 34
Logan v. Murray, 116–17
London, England, 28, 95, 175, 198, 200, 201, 224, 226
Brixton, 204
Ealing, 196
Soho, 216
Tavistock Clinic, 151
Los Angeles, California, 243
lust, 33, 35, 58, 75

M
Macauley, Catherine, 96
MacGillivray, Ian, 184–5
Mackintosh, Kenneth, 135
Mackenzie, Henry, 95, 96, 99
McMillan, Michael, 198–9
Mahan, Carl Newton, 133
majority, age of, 5, 6, 7–8, 25, 30, 186, 260
Malleson, Joan, 174
Manchester, 196, 206
Mandeville, Bernard, 101, 102
manhood, 4, 30, 33, 46, 51, 52, 53, 54, 92, 93, 113
manliness (virility), 33, 48, 51, 157
Marley, Bob, 198
marriage, 4, 9, 13, 33, 46, 54, 56, 58, 91, 95, 113, 120, 135, 172, 173, 177–8, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 193, 197, 239, 247, 248, 249, 262
arranged, 207
and disability, 215, 217, 218, 220–21, 223, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230
early, 200–203, 207
legal age of, 5, 6
Martin, Clarence, 136
Martin, Trayvon, 130
martyrologies, 68, 75, 78, 83n55
masculinity, 3, 4, 46, 48, 49, 54, 150, 157, 158, 223, 250, 261
Massachusetts, 128, 131
Mattinson, Janet, 222, 223, 224, 228
maturity, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 29, 31, 33, 34, 93, 117, 129, 150–51, 161–2, 183, 194, 196, 198, 245, 246, 250, 251, 260, 261
and leadership, 152–3
emotional, 157–9, 186, 221
physical, 92, 131
political, 10, 159–61
psychological, 131, 193
and sexuality, 153–6
spiritual, 12, 49, 59, 67–80, 262
Mencap, 222
menopause, 26, 31, 58, 90, 91, 94
menstruation, 56, 57, 92
mental health, 6, 127, 159, 249
Mexia, Pedro, 47
Mexican Americans, 12, 136
Michals, Teresa, 9, 10
midlife crisis, 3, 27, 32, 35, 37, 93, 97
middle age, 2, 3, 8, 47, 51, 57, 58, 72, 74, 80, 93, 96–7, 98, 99–100, 102, 105
crisis of. See midlife crisis
medieval conception of, 25–37
Middle Ages, 25–37, 157
‘middling sort’, the, 48
millennials, 1, 13, 239, 242, 249
ministers, Protestant, 49, 67, 68, 74–80, 262
Mintz, Steven, 3–4
Mirza, Nadia, 199, 202
monasteries, 35
mortality, 27
infant, 28, 63n63
motherhood, 197, 200–203, 207, 248, 249
Murcot, John, 75
murder, 120, 128, 129–35, 137, 139, 176, 260
Murder Act (1752), 129
Murray, James, 116–17
muscular dystrophy, 216, 218, 219

N
National Front, 206
National Health Service (NHS), 171, 174–5, 176
National Service, 158
Native Americans, 7, 12, 112, 129, 137, 138
Nazism, 157, 159, 206
Negus, William, 70
Nevada, 138
New England, 128
New London, Connecticut, 129
New York City, New York, 6, 120, 130, 135
Sing Sing Prison, 135
New Zealand, 6
Newcomen, Matthew, 76, 78
Newton, Thomas, 76
Niccolls Jr, Herbert, 133–6, 137, 138, 139
Niebrzydowski, Sue, 31, 57
NHS Family Planning Act (1967), 175
nightmares, 159
‘normalisation’, 221–4, 226, 227
North Carolina, 112, 116, 118, 119
Notting Hill Carnival, 204
Novare, Philippe de, 29

O
O’Neil, Eileen, 139
Ocuish, Hannah, 129
Okawara, Tom, 137
old age, 3, 8, 9, 26, 28, 29, 34, 45, 46, 50, 55–6, 89, 90, 91, 93–4, 95, 96, 98–9, 100, 105
as decline, 2, 12, 25, 27, 30, 31, 49, 51–3, 54, 59, 72–4, 76–7, 78–9, 80, 262
and senility, 78–80
Oliver, J., 224
Ovid, 95

P
Paintsville, Kentucky, 133
Palmer, Herbert, 75
Pan-Africanism, 206
Pande, Ishita, 6, 261, 262
Papillion, David, 71
parenthood, 4, 193, 224
Parlement of the Thre Ages (poem), 32
Parmar, Pratibha, 199, 202
Paterson, Lindsay, 178, 180
patriarchs, biblical, 75
patriarchy, 4, 5, 46, 54, 59, 80, 228
Patrick, Simon, 73
Pentecostalism, 206
Pennsylvania, 112, 116, 117, 132
perfection, 31, 47, 50–55, 57, 72, 92, 98
performance, adulthood as, 150, 152, 157, 186
heteronormativity as, 250
Perkins, William, 74
Perry, William, 93, 94
Petrarch, Francisco, 35, 36
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 116
philosophy, 29, 31, 35
Phipps, Jacob, 118–19
Phipps, Jane, 118–19
Phipps v. Garland, 118
Piers Plowman (poem), 32
pill, the (oral contraceptive pill), 171, 174–5, 176, 179–80, 181, 182, 185, 186, 261
Pincus, Gregory, 174
poll tax, 5
pop culture, 151, 239
Pope, Alexander, 103
Porter, Polly, 117
pregnancy, 116, 117, 118, 180, 182, 183, 184, 185, 244
in older women, 94
prevention of. See contraception
underage, 112, 119–20
unwanted, 175, 178, 248
premarital sex, 172, 176, 177, 180, 182, 183, 184–5, 186, 187, 262
Presbyterianism, 71
Preston, John, 75
Price, Sampson, 71
‘prime of life’, idea of, 30, 31, 32, 33, 50, 51–2, 53, 54, 55, 74, 76, 93, 96
prisons, 127, 135, 136, 138, 139–40
Progressive era, 131, 132, 139, 140
progressivism, 11
Prohibition, 7
promiscuity, 172, 175, 176, 180, 182, 183
prophecy, 73
Protestantism, 12, 49, 67–80, 131, 176, 261, 262
pseudoscience, 136
psychoanalysis, 27, 149–63, 222
psychology, developmental, 8
psychosexual development, 150, 153, 155, 156, 162
puberty, 8, 92, 114
Pythagoras, 51

Q
Quakers, 68
queer theory, 262

R
race, 2, 112, 113, 114, 116, 121, 132, 157, 194, 204, 216, 261
and judicial treatment, 128–9, 133, 139–40
racism, 128, 136, 195, 198, 201, 203, 205, 206, 207, 224, 229
structural, 197, 260
rape, 115, 116, 117
Rastafarianism, 199, 206
Ratis Raving (poem), 30
Reagan, Ronald, 139
Reading, John, 54
reconstruction, postwar, 157
Reggae music, 196, 204
rehabilitation, 131, 135, 139
Reformation, 59
‘second’, 68
Reinke-Williams, Tim, 56, 58
religion, 75, 155, 199, 202
Representation of the People Act (1918), 7
residential schools, Indian, 138
Revolution, American, 113, 114
Riches, Valerie, 178
rites of passage, 4, 33, 46, 56, 218, 248, 249
Rock, John, 174
Roper v. Simmons, 130
Ross, William, 176
Ruffin, Edmund, 111, 121
Ruffin, Elizabeth, 111, 119, 121

S
saints, 9, 68, 72
Salem, Massachusetts, 128
Saltmarsh, John, 79–80
San Francisco, California, 243
San Quentin, Babes of, 136–8
San Quentin, California, 136, 137, 138
Santiago de Compostella, Spain, 37
satire, 96, 101, 103, 259
Sbaraini, Ella, 58, 93
Schottennius, Hermannus, 48
Scope (charity), 225, 226
Scotland, 7, 12, 171–87, 204
Scottish Law Commission, 177
Seattle, Washington, 135–6
Section 28 (Local Government Act 1988), 228
seduction suits, 111–22
selection boards, psychological, 13, 149–63, 262
Sen, Satadru, 10, 194
senescence, 72, 76, 91
sermons, 34, 54, 68, 74,
funeral, 71, 72, 75–6
servants, 91, 112, 114, 117, 119–20
sex education, 184, 223
Sexual Offences Act (1967), 7
‘Sexual Revolution’, 171–2, 174, 177, 241
sexuality, 2, 13, 150, 151, 153–6, 180, 181, 184, 185, 227
Shakespeare, William, 45, 48, 54
Sharp, John, 137
Shearer, Ann, 221
Shepard, Alexandra, 9–10, 46, 49, 59, 72
Shockley, Leonard, 130
Sikhism, 202, 208n12
single mothers, 36, 118
singleness, 113, 183, 184, 187, 217, 225
social mobility, 178, 180, 200
social workers, 194, 215, 222, 223, 260
soldiers, 50, 51, 54, 123n17, 151
South America, 11, 69
South Asians, 12, 13, 194–5, 196, 197, 199–200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 260
South Carolina, 130
sport, 197
Sproul, Robert, 117–18
Star, Idaho, 135
Starcross, Devon, 222, 223
status, social, 4, 5, 9–10, 28, 30, 111–12, 116, 121, 152, 173, 183, 229, 246, 248, 261
stereotypes, 2, 3, 13, 68, 73, 180, 194, 197, 198, 201, 206, 217, 241
sterilisation, involuntary, 136, 224
Stinney Jr, George, 130
Stopes, Marie, 174, 188n15
strength, physical, 9, 30, 49, 50, 52, 77, 137
suicide, 127, 227
Supreme Court, US (SCOTUS), 120, 130, 132, 133, 141n12
Swift, Jonathan, 94–5

T
Tarbin, Stephanie, 50, 55
Tarkington, Booth, 134
teenagers, 8, 179–80, 181, 193–6, 198, 203, 205–206, 207, 250
African-Caribbean, 208n12
South Asian, 197, 199, 204, 208n12
Thematic Apperception Test, 153–4, 155, 159
Thomas, George, 216, 217, 218
Thomas of Cantimpré, 29
Thompson, T. R., 137
Thompson, William, 130
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 130
Till, Emmett, 130
‘tough on crime’ era, 139–40
Townsend, Peter, 222
Tucker, J. B., 134
Twain, Mark, 134

U
unemployment, 1, 171, 193, 199, 249
Unilever, 149, 152–3, 156, 158, 160, 161, 162, 261
Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS), 220–21, 226

V
Van Hoose, Cecil, 133
vanity, 58, 99
Vaughan, William, 52
Vickery, Amanda, 93, 96, 104
Vietnam War, 6
Villon, François, 32
virility. See masculinity
voting rights, 6, 7, 113

W
Walla Walla, Washington, 135, 136
Walpole, Horace, 96, 98, 100, 102
Walsham, Alexandra, 59, 68, 79
War Office Selection Boards, 13, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155, 158, 160, 161
Waterfield, Percival, 149, 154, 155
Waters, Rob, 195, 196, 205
Webbe, Harold, 154
welfare state, 171
White, Rawlins, 77
widowhood, 56
William of Malmesbury, 28
Williamsburg, Virginia, 246
Wilson, Amrit, 200, 202
Wilson, John, 117, 118
Wiltshire, Pauline, 224
wisdom, 3, 9, 30, 35, 37, 49, 50, 52, 58, 70, 72, 73, 80, 94, 157, 160
witchcraft, 128
Wolfensberger, Wolf, 221, 222
Wolridge-Gordon, Patrick, 182
womanhood, 201, 248
Wood, Matthew, 120
Wood, Susan, 120
Word Association Tests, 155–6
World War I, 134, 151, 174
World War II, 6, 151, 157
Wormell, John, 133, 134
Wright, Thomas, 70

Y
York, England, 28
Yorkshire, 197
‘young adulthood’, 13, 26, 33, 105
youth, 33–4, 35, 46, 51–4, 55, 57, 58, 71, 73, 74, 79, 80, 93, 95, 97, 101, 104, 157, 182, 205, 206, 207, 240, 242, 249
adulation of, 90, 100, 105
as ‘age of man’, 29, 30
culture, 172–3, 181, 203
desires of, 36, 48
extension of, 96, 98–100
lost, 27, 31–2
‘othering’ of, 49

Z
Zulfiqar, Mohsin, 206

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