TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Midlife crisis : the feminist origins of a chauvinist cliché A1 - Schmidt, Susanne, kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press YR - 2020 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5468384 AB - "This book recounts the surprising origin story of the "midlife crisis." Before becoming a gendered cliche, the midlife crisis gained traction as a feminist concept with the publication of journalist Gail Sheehy's best-selling Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. Coined by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in the 1950s, the term was largely neglected until Sheehy re-invented it as a feminist idea that challenged the double standard of middle age. Widely popular, 'midlife crisis' was subsequently appropriated and redefined as a masculinist concept by psychological and psychiatric experts. Susanne Schmidt's telling reveals the midlife crisis' remarkable role in modern American life: first to valorize the emergence of female breadwinners and dual-income families, then to reassert gender order in times of social change. A must-read"-- SN - 978-0-226-68685-1 sidottu SN - 978-0-226-63714-3 nidottu KW - Sheehy, Gail. : Passages. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Midlife crisis. KW - Midlife crisis : History. KW - Feminist psychology : United States : History. KW - Psychology : United States : History : 20th century. KW - PSYCHOLOGY / General. KW - Feminist psychology. KW - Psychology. KW - Feminismus KW - Midlife-Crisis KW - Psychologie KW - United States. ER -