Age in America : the colonial era to the present /
"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 childhoo...
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New York University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett
- Part I. Age in early America
- "Keep me with you, so that I might not be damned" : age and captivity in colonial borderlands warfare / Ann M. Little
- "Beyond the time of white children" : African American emancipation, age, and ascribed neoteny in early national Pennsylvania / Sharon Braslaw Sundue
- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century
- "If you have the right to vote at 21 years, then I have" : age and equal citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States / Corinne T. Field
- A birthday like none other : turning twenty-one in the age of popular politics / Jon Grinspan
- Statutory marriage ages and the gendered construction of adulthood in the nineteenth century / Nicholas L. Syrett
- From family Bibles to birth certificates : young people, proof of age, and American political cultures, 1820-1915 / Shane Landrum
- "Rendered more useful" : child labor and age consciousness in the long nineteenth century / James D. Schmidt
- "A day too late" : age, immigration quotas, and racial exclusion / Yuki Oda
- Part III. Age in modern America
- Age and retirement : major issues in the American experience / William Graebner
- "The proper age for suffrage" : vote 18 and the politics of age from World War II to the Age of Aquarius / Rebecca de Schweinitz
- "Old enough to live" : age, alcohol, and adulthood in the United States, 1970-1984 / Timothy Cole
- Age and identity : reaching thirteen in the lives of American Jews / Stuart Schoenfeld
- A Chicana third space feminist reading of Chicano life cycle markers / Norma E. Cantú
- Delineating old age : from functional status to bureaucratic criteria / W. Andrew Achenbaum.
