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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
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
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
Measuring age
The mature minister
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. The rising generation and the fogram: Locating adulthood in eighteenth-century England
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Becoming an adult today
When you grow up your heart dies: onscreen rejections of standard adulthood
Conclusion
Notes
References
Afterword: Against adulthood
Notes
References
Index
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