Contemporary Adulthood Calendars, Cartographies and Constructions [Paperback]

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.Introduction: The Problem of Contemporary Adulthood: Calendars, Cartographies, and Constructions;? J. Burnett Generations, Modernity and the Problem of Contemporary Adulthood;? H.Blatterer The Calendar of Life: The Context of Social Trends for Understanding Contemporary Adulthood;? J.Burnett Buying in: On Adulthood and Home Ownership Ideologies;? K.Crawford Young Graduates and Understandings of Adulthood;? R.Brooks Thirtysomething and Contemporary Adulthood;? J.Burnett Chronologising Adulthood/Configuring Masculinity;? J.Hockey, V.Robinson ?& A.Hall Surveys, Citizenship and the Sexual Lifecourse;? M.Davis Life Begins At...? Psychological Reflections on Mental Health and Adulthood;? J.Brown Growing Up Through Activism: Adult Identities and the Maturing of Standpoints;? R.McKechnie ?& B.K?rner BibliographyHARRY BLATTERER is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaRACHEL BROOKS is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey, UKJOANNE BROWN is Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Southampton, UKJUDITH BURNETT is Dean of the School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications at the University of Wolverhampton, UKKATE CRAWFORD is Lecturer in the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney, AustraliaMARK DAVIS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash Univesity, AustraliaALEXANDRA HALL is Research Associate at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UKJENNY HOCKEY is Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UKBARBARA KORNER is Lecturer in the Social Sciences at the Open Universl�