New passages : mapping your life across time Gail Sheehy.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House, c1995Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 498 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 0394589130 (acid-free paper)Subject(s): Adulthood | Maturation (Psychology) | Socialization | Middle-aged persons -- Psychology | Middle age -- Social aspects | Aging -- Social aspects | Aging | Life change events | Personality development | Aging | Life Change Events | Personality Development | Socialization | Adulthood | Maturation (Psychology) | Middle aged persons -- psychology | Aging -- Social aspects | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-DDC classification: 305.24 Summary: People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty- five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | 305.24 SHEE (Browse shelf) | Available | 34460 |
Sequel to: Passages.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-473) and index.
People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty- five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life.
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