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1 online resource (172 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Meanings and Numbers; Chronological definitions of middle age; Demonisation; Homogenisation; Individualisation; A working definition of middle age; The number of the middle aged; 3. Health; Decline; Adaptability and improvement; Gender, age and health; Class, age and health; 4. Work, Wealth and Consumption; Employment, income and wealth; The economic life cycle; Targeting the middle aged; Women's double disadvantage; Working-class retrenchment and middle-class anxiety |
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5. Family RelationshipsAdultery, separation and divorce; Middle-aged parents and teenage children; Middle-aged children and elderly parents; Pleasures and possibilities; Men and women, children and parents; Working-class responsibilities and middle-class opportunities; 6. Attitudes; The search for security; Censoriousness and conservatism; The generation gap; Age and identity; Gender and generation; Class, caution and contradiction; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: The Wolverhampton Oral History Project; Index |
| Summary |
Numerous studies consider the history of childhood, adolescence and old age, yet the middle aged, consistently the most productive and powerful of age groups have been consistently ignored. In this pioneering study John Benson considers how perceptions and experience of middle age have changed, and how its power-base has diminished, affected by the steady ageing of the population the increasing independence of the yound and growing economic insecurity. This thought-provoking study also illuminates the whole economic, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Middle age -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Middle-aged persons -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Middle age
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Middle-aged persons
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317890454 |
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1317890450 |
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