Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479831913 ISBN 13: 9781479831913

Verlag: New York University, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives-precise moments when our rights and opportunities change-when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens.


Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures-from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas-Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Corinne T. Field is Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History and Women, Gender, Sexuality Program at the University of Virginia. She is co-editor of our Age In America: The Colonial Era to the Present (2015) and The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (UNC 2014).

Nicholas L. Syrett is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas and the author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States​.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New York University
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1479831913
• ISBN 13: 9781479831913
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Field Corinne T., Syrett Nicholas L.
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