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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

List of figures

2.1  Ages of man: third stage, from the age of thirty-two to forty-eight, and the classical orders of architecture: ionic. Engraving by J. Wierix, 1577, after J. Vredeman de Vries. Wellcome Collection. © Source: Wellcome Collection.

2.2  The ages of man represented as a step scheme. Reproduction of an engraving by C. Bertelli. Wellcome Collection. © Source: Wellcome Collection.

4.1  ‘A speedy and effectual preparation for the next world’ (1777). © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

4.2  “________” “And catch the living Manners as they rise” (1794). © National Portrait Gallery, London.

4.3  ‘An agreeable group of young gentlemen, otherwise old bachelors turn’d asses’ (1797). Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

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