ISBN:
9780582256576
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (172 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Prime Time : A History of the Middle Aged in Twentieth-Century Britain
DDC:
305.244/0941/0904
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.〈BR〉〈BR〉〈BR〉〈BR〉
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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