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