ISBN:
9781479806836
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1479806838
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9781479840595
,
1479840599
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Age in America
DDC:
305.260973
Keywords:
Age Social aspects
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History
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United States
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Age Political aspects
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History
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United States
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Age groups History
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United States
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Social classes History
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United States
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Identity (Psychology) History
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United States
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Coming of age Social aspects
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History
;
United States
;
Aging Social aspects
;
History
;
United States
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Citizenship History
;
United States
;
Political culture History
;
United States
;
Age Social aspects
;
History
;
Age Political aspects
;
History
;
Age groups History
;
Social classes History
;
Identity (Psychology) History
;
Coming of age Social aspects
;
History
;
Aging Social aspects
;
History
;
Citizenship History
;
Political culture History
;
Age groups
;
Age ; Political aspects
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Aging ; Social aspects
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Citizenship
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Identity (Psychology)
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Political culture
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Social classes
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Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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History
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United States Social conditions
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United States
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United States Social conditions
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United States
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"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's website
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479840595
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