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The prime of life : a history of modern adulthood / Steven Mintz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 409 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674425668
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ799 .P756 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The tangled transition to adulthood -- Achieving intimacy -- I do : the evolution of marriage -- I don't : alternatives to marriage -- The trials of parenting -- Finding fulfillment in work -- The angst of adulthood -- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood.
Subject: Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HQ799.95 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn905696298

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue: The voyage of life -- The tangled transition to adulthood -- Achieving intimacy -- I do : the evolution of marriage -- I don't : alternatives to marriage -- The trials of parenting -- Finding fulfillment in work -- The angst of adulthood -- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood.

Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.

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