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Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis de Mark Jackson

Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis

Autor Mark Jackson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iul 2021
The midlife crisis has become a cliché in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain infidelity in middle-aged men, disillusionment with personal achievements, the pain and sadness associated with separation and divorce, and the fear of approaching death. This book provides a meticulously researched account of the social and cultural conditions in which middle-aged men and women began to reevaluate their hopes and dreams, reassess their relationships, and seek new forms of identity and fresh pathways to self-satisfaction. Drawing on a rich seam of literary, medical, media, and cinematic sources, as well as personal accounts, Broken Dreams explores how the crises of middle-aged men and women were shaped by increased life expectancy, changing family structures, shifting patterns of work, and the rise of individualism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789143959
ISBN-10: 1789143950
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 9 halftones
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books

Notă biografică

Mark Jackson is professor of the history of medicine and director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. His books include Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady, also published by Reaktion Books, and The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability.

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"Medical historian Jackson examines in this thought-provoking scholarly study the social and cultural factors that made the midlife  crisis 'a key feature of private lives and public debate in the mid-twentieth century. . . . Jackson’s expansive range and nuanced readings of popular culture more than make his case. This is a pinpoint dissection of an influential if slippery concept."

"The midlife crisis has always been an embarrassment for the affluent societies that produce it. . .. So what is the elusive social dysfunction that even the cynical can sense in their fortunate lives? Jackson’s study of midlife turmoil, Broken Dreams, presents the full answer to this question with a history that honors the many variations of human experience to which the midlife crisis lays claim."

"This history of the midlife crisis is a first (to this reviewer's knowledge), and the result is a delight to this just-passed-midlife reader. . . . The introduction gives one a sense of the wide range of the material Jackson explores: psychoanalytic, social scientific, cultural, and literary. Most of the classic studies come from masculine models of life stages; the midlife crisis was a gendered concept from its origin. The author concludes his historical study with some timeless advice: ‘avoidance of internal conflicts and external pressures is a high-risk strategy at midlife. . . . Left unattended, our midlife delusions will continue to ruin lives long after we have gone.' . . . Highly recommended." 

"The book is intended for a general audience but loses none of its academic rigor. It is thoroughly evidenced throughout its humorous, engaging, and clearly written prose. The structure allows the author to present Dante’s Comedy of Errors and David Nobbs’ Reginal Perrin alongside the psychiatric work of Carl Jung and Elliott Jacques without jarring the reader at all."

“In what will surely be recognized as the classic account of how the midlife crisis became the lens through which we perceive and experience middle age, Jackson uncovers the cultural, demographic, economic, and social scientific factors that led us to see midlife as a uniquely problematic life stage. Whether you consider midlife as a point at which discontented women and men compulsively seek to preserve their youthful dreams and vitality or as an opportunity for reinvention and renewal, Broken Dreams will prompt you to view middle age in a fresh light: as a stage that is perhaps life’s most complex and challenging.”

“Synthesizing his account from a wide variety of source materials, Jackson demonstrates convincingly that even though midlife itself resists neat definition, it nevertheless transcended biomedical, social, and cultural domains from the early twentieth century onwards. Covering a diverse range of themes, but focusing particularly on gender, this important book will serve as a touchstone for all historians concerned with ageing, family, sex, and the life course.”