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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Keep Me with You, So That I Might Not Be Damned”
- 2 “Beyond the Time of White Children”
- 3 “If You Have the Right to Vote at 21 Years, Then I Have”
- 4 A Birthday Like None Other
- 5 Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century
- 6 From Family Bibles to Birth Certificates
- 7 “Rendered More Useful”
- 8 “A Day too Late”
- 9 Age and Retirement
- 10 “The Proper Age for Suffrage”
- 11 “Old Enough to Live”
- 12 Age and Identity
- 13 A Chicana Third Space Feminist Reading of Chican@ Life Cycle Markers
- 14 Delineating Old Age
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Keep Me with You, So That I Might Not Be Damned”
- 2 “Beyond the Time of White Children”
- 3 “If You Have the Right to Vote at 21 Years, Then I Have”
- 4 A Birthday Like None Other
- 5 Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century
- 6 From Family Bibles to Birth Certificates
- 7 “Rendered More Useful”
- 8 “A Day too Late”
- 9 Age and Retirement
- 10 “The Proper Age for Suffrage”
- 11 “Old Enough to Live”
- 12 Age and Identity
- 13 A Chicana Third Space Feminist Reading of Chican@ Life Cycle Markers
- 14 Delineating Old Age
- About the Contributors
- Index
