In our prime the invention of middle age
From the author, a New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas, comes a social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely unto...
| Main Author: | Cohen, Patricia, 1960- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Scribner,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1:
- The invention of Middle Age
- The prime meridian
- Now and then
- The tick of the time clock
- The renaissance of the middle-aged
- The middle-aged body
- Middle age enters the modern age
- 2:
- Middle age is rediscovered
- The sixties and seventies: the era of middle age
- Putting middle age on the map
- The middle-aged brain
- 3:
- The midlife industrial complex
- Consuming desire
- Middle age medicine
- Middle age sex
- Complex accomplices
- The arrival of the alpha boomer
- In our prime.