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Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present

2015 New York University ;ISBN: 1479870013 ;ISBN: 9781479870011 ;ISBN: 9781479806836 ;ISBN: 1479806838 ;ISBN: 1479831913 ;ISBN: 9781479831913 ;EISBN: 9781479840595 ;EISBN: 1479840599 ;EISBN: 9781479806836 ;EISBN: 1479806838 ;DOI: 10.18574/9781479840595 ;OCLC: 910934045 ;LCCallNum: HN90.S6A34 2015

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  • Title:
    Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present
  • Author: Syrett, Nicholas L
  • Nicholas L. Syrett ; Corinne T. Field
  • Subjects: Age ; Age groups ; Aging ; Aging - Social aspects - United States - History ; Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ; Citizenship ; Coming of age ; HISTORY ; Identity (Psychology) ; Political aspects ; Political culture ; Social aspects ; Social classes ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; United States
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: New York: NYU Press
  • Creation Date: 2015
  • Format: 347
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 1479870013
    ISBN: 9781479870011
    ISBN: 9781479806836
    ISBN: 1479806838
    ISBN: 1479831913
    ISBN: 9781479831913
    EISBN: 9781479840595
    EISBN: 1479840599
    EISBN: 9781479806836
    EISBN: 1479806838
    DOI: 10.18574/9781479840595
    OCLC: 910934045
    LCCallNum: HN90.S6A34 2015
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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