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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Contemporary adulthood. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (DLC) 2010004778 (OCoLC)319495178 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Burnett |
ISBN: | 9780230290297 0230290299 |
OCLC Number: | 688186445 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 173 pages) |
Contents: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; The Problem of Contemporary Adulthood: Calendars Cartographies and Constructions; 1 Generations, Modernity and the Problem of Contemporary Adulthood; 2 The Calendar of Life: The Context of Social Trends for Understanding Contemporary Adulthood; 3 Buying In: On Adulthood and Homeownership Ideologies; 4 Young Graduates and Understandings of Adulthood; 5 Thirtysomething and Contemporary Adulthood; 6 Chronologising Adulthood/Configuring Masculinity; 7 Surveys, Citizenship and the Sexual Lifecourse. |
Responsibility: | edited by Judith Burnett. |
Abstract:
A new approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirty-something; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual lifecourse; political beliefs in adulthood; and adulthood and the housing market.
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