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The midlife crisis, gender, and social science in the United States, 1970–2000

Schmidt, Susanne AntjeUniversity of Cambridge2018

… popular in the United States with journalist Gail Sheehy's Passages (1976), a critique of Erik Erikson's male-centered model of ego development and psychoanalytic constructions of gender and identity more generally. Drawing on mid-century notions of middle life as the time of a woman's entry …

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