Age in America : : The Colonial Era to the Present / / ed. by Corinne T. Field, Nicholas L. Syrett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Achenbaum, W. Andrew,; Cantú, Norma E.,; Cole, Timothy,; Field, Corinne T.,; Graebner, William,; Grinspan, Jon,; Landrum, Shane,; Little, Ann M.,; Oda, Yuki,; Schmidt, James D.,; Schoenfeld, Stuart,; Sundue, Sharon Braslaw,; Syrett, Nicholas L.,; de Schweinitz, Rebecca,
• HerausgeberIn: Field, Corinne T.,; Syrett, Nicholas L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 6 black and white illustrations

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, adult...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Age in Early America
• 1. “Keep Me with You, So That I Might Not Be Damned”
• 2. “Beyond the Time of White Children”
• Part II. Age in the Long Nineteenth Century
• 3. “If You Have the Right to Vote at 21 Years, Then I Have”
• 4. A Birthday Like None Other
• 5. Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century
• 6. From Family Bibles to Birth Certificates
• 7. “Rendered More Useful”
• 8. “A Day Too Late”
• Part III. Age in Modern America
• 9. Age and Retirement
• 10. “The Proper Age for Suffrage”
• 11. “Old Enough to Live” Age, Alcohol, and Adulthood in the United States, 1970–1984
• 12. Age and Identity Reaching Thirteen in the Lives of American Jews
• 13. A Chicana Third Space Feminist Reading of Chican@ Life Cycle Markers
• 14. Delineating Old Age
• About the Contributors
• Index