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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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