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The Prime of Life - A History of Modern Adulthood (Hardcover)
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The Prime of Life - A History of Modern Adulthood (Hardcover)
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Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and
women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and
establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which
they are no longer adolescents but still lack the traditional
emblems of adult identity. People at midlife struggle to sustain
relationships with friends and partners, to find employment and
fulfilling careers, to raise their children successfully, and to
resist the aging process. The Prime of Life puts today's challenges
into new perspective by exploring how past generations navigated
the passage to maturity, achieved intimacy and connection, raised
children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss. Coming of
age has never been easy or predictable, Steven Mintz shows, and the
process has always been shaped by gender and class. But whereas
adulthood once meant culturally-prescribed roles and relationships,
the social and economic convulsions of the last sixty years have
transformed it fundamentally, tearing up these shared scripts and
leaving adults to fashion meaning and coherence in an increasingly
individualistic culture. Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior
of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic
melodramas. Emphasizing adulthood's joys and fulfillments as well
as its frustrations and regrets, he shows how cultural and
historical circumstances have consistently reshaped what it means
to be a grown up in contemporary society. The Prime of Life urges
us to confront adulthood's realities with candor and determination
and to value and embrace the responsibility, sensible judgment,
wisdom, and compassionate understanding it can bring.
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