(and other cultural fictions)
Edición de la obra Welcome to middle age!
| Autor | Richard A. Shweder |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1998 |
| Lugar | Chicago |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 302 |
| ISBN-10 | 0226756076, 0226756084 |
| OCLC | 37902418 |
| LCCN | 97045115 |
| Serie | The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. |
| Número de Cutter |
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The idea of "midlife," and particularly the decline associated with the period, has become widespread in Euro-American culture. The symptoms of middle age are equally pervasive: back pain, mortgage payments, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age. Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) is a welcome antidote to this epidemic, providing a refreshing examination of both this received idea of midlife and of alternative "fictions" that operate in cultures where middle age does not even constitute a life stage.