Welcome to Middle Age!

Preface by Richard A. Shweder
Introduction: Welcome to Middle Age! by Richard A. Shweder
1: Midlife Discourses in the Twentieth-Century United States: An Essay on the Sexuality, Ideology, and Politics of "Middle-Ageism"
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
2: Deconstructing the Change: Female Maturation in Japan and North America
Margaret Lock
3: The Search for Middle Age in India
Sudhir Kakar
4: Status Reversal: The Coming of Aging in Samoa
Bradd Shore
5: The Return of the "White Man's Burden": The Moral Discourse of Anthropology and the Domestic Life of Hindu Women
Usha Menon, Richard A. Shweder.
6: Fertility and Maturity in Africa: Gusii Parents in Middle Adulthood
Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine.
7: Children of the 1960s at Midlife: Generational Identity and the Family Adaptive Project
Thomas S. Weisner, Lucinda P. Bernheimer.
8: Place and Race: Midlife Experience in Harlem
Katherine Newman
Contributors
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