1994
Alice S. Rossi
1994 Rossi, Sexuality across the Life Course
Table of Contents
I. The Biopsychosocial Perspective
1)
Eros and Caritas: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Human Sexuality
and
Reproduction,
Alice S. Rossi
II. Sexual Diversity: History, Culture, and Lifestyle
2)
Human Sexuality, Life Histories, and Evolutionary Biology,
Jane B.
Lancaster
3)
Attitudes toward Sexual Permissiveness: Trends, Correlates, and
Behavioral
Connections,
Tom W. Smith
4)
Sexuality among African-American Women,
Claire Sterk-Elifson
5)
African-American Male Sexuality through the Early Life Course,
Benjamin
P. Bowser
6)
Single Worlds and Homosexual Lifestyles: Patterns of Sexuality and
Intimacy,
Martha R. Fowlkes
III. Sexuality at Selected Phases of the Life Course
7)
Getting Started on Sexual Behavior,
J. Richard Udry and Benjamin C.
Campbell
8)
Changing Lives, Changing Genres: Teenage Girls' Narratives about
Sex
and Romance,
Sharon Thompson
9)
Sexuality, Marriage, and Well-Being: The Middle Years,
John N.
Edwards and
Alan Booth
10)
Age-Related Variation in Sexual Activity and Interest in Normal Men:
Results
from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study,
John B.
McKinlay
and Henry A. Feldman
11)
Sex and Sexuality in Later Life Stages,
Judith A. Levy
IV. Selected Health Issues
12) Effect
of Chronic Disease and Medication on Sexual Functioning,
Raul
C. Schiavi
13)
Sexual Problems and Therapies: A Quarter Century of Developments
and
Changes,
Richard Green
14)
Sexual Offending and Victimization: A Life Course Perspective,
Richard
J.
Gelles and Glenn Wolfner
1996
Carol D. Ryff/Marsha
Mailick Seltzer
1997 Ryff/Seltzer, The Parental Experience in Midlife
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
1)
The Uncharted Years of Midlife Parenting, Carol D. Ryff
and Marsha
Mailick
Seltzer
II. Demographic and Economic Aspects of Midlife Parenting
2)
Social Demographic Diversity among American Midlife Parents,
Nadine
F. Marks
3)
The Economic Vulnerability of Midlife Single Parents, Daniel R. Meyer
III. Historical and Social Changes and the Parental Experience
4)
Parental Socialization in Historical Perspective, Duane F. Alwin
5)
Social and Historical Influences on Parent-Child Relations in Midlife,
Michael
E. U. Wadsworth
IV. Adolescent in Transition and Their Parents
6)
Parents' Well-Being at Their Children's Transition to Adolescence,
Susan
B. Silverberg
7) Reproductive
Transitions: the Experience of Mothers and Daughters,
Julia
A. Graber and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
8) Mothers'
Parental Efficacy at Midlife in a Black and Latina Sample:
Effects
of Adolescent change across a School Transition, LaRue
Allen,
J. Lawrence Aber, Edward Seidman, Jill Denner, and Christina
Mitchell
9)
The Prediction of Parental Psychological Functioning: Influences of
African
American Adolescent Perceptions and Experiences of Context
V. Parents and Children as Adults
10)
How Children Turn Out: Implications for Parental Self-Evaluation,
Carol
D. Ryff, Pamela S. Schmutte, and Young Hyun Lee
11) The
Returning Adult Child and Parental Experience at Midlife,
William
S. Aquilino
12) Midlife
and Later Life Parenting of Adult Children with Mental
Retardation, Marsha
Mailick Seltzer, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss,
Seung
Chol Choi, and Jinkuk Hong
VI. Parent-Child Relations in Midlife
13)
Demographic Position and Stresful Midlife Events: Effects on the Quality
of
Parent-Child Relationships, Debra Umberson
14)
Sexual Offending and Victimization: A Life Course Perspective, Richard
J.
Gelles and Glenn Wolfner
15)
Child Life Events, Parent-Child Disagreements, and Parent Well-Being;
Model
Development and Testing, Rachel A. Pruchno, Norah D. Peters,
and
Christopher J. Burant
16)
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Life-Course Unfolding of Parenthood,
Rosemary
Blieszner, Jay A. Mancini, and Lydia I. Marek
VII. Summary and Conclusions
17)
The Parental Experience in Midlife: Past, Present, and Future, Marsha
Mailick
Seltzer and Carol D. Ryff
1997
Margie E. Lachman/Jacquelyn
Boone James
1997 Lachman/James, Multiple Paths of Midlife Development
Table of Contents
1) Charting
the Course of Midlife Development: an Overview,
Margie
E. Lachman and Jacquelyn Boone James
I. Changes in the Self
2)
The Self in Middle Age
3)
Stability and Change in the Transition to Midlife: A Longitudinal
Study
of
Midlife Adults,
Carol E. Franz
4)
Do Aspects of Gender Identity Change from Early to middle Adulthood?
Disentangling
Age, Cohort, and Period Effects,
Rebecca A. Parker
and
Carolyn M. Aldwin
5) Themes
of Power and Affiliation across Time,
Jacquelyn Boone James
and
Corinne J. Lewkowicz
II. Relations with Others
6) Concern
with Others at Midlife: Care, Comfort, or Compromise?
Toni
Antonucci and Hiroko Akiyama
7) A
Longitudinal Analysis of Midlife Interpersonal Relationships and
Well-Being,
Elizabeth L. Paul
8)
The Generativity of Employed Mothers in Multiple Roles: 1979 and
1991,
Shelley M. MacDermid, Gabriela Heilbrun, and Laura
Gillespie
DeHaan
III. Health and Stress
9) Promoting
Health and Minimizing Stress in Midlife,
Ilene C. Siegler
10) Psychosocial
Correlates of Women's Self-Rated Physical Health in
Middle
Adulthood,
Sandra P. Thomas
11) Crisis,
Challenge, and Stability in the Middle Years,
David A. Chiriboga
IV. The World of Work
12) Gender,
Employment, and Psychological Well-Being: Historical and
Life
Course Perspectives,
Rosalind C. Barnett
13) Antecedent
Life Events and Consequences for Homemakers and
Women
Employed in Atypical, Typical, and Androgynous
Professions,
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey and Jessica Gomel
14) Women's
Careers Commitment Patterns and Personality Development,
Elizabeth
A. Vandewater and Abigail J. Stewart
15) An
Individual Differences Approach to Midlife Career Adjustment: An
Exploratory
Study,
Frederick T. L. Leong and Kristin A. Boyle
1998
Richard A. Shweder
1998 Shweder, Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions)
Table of Contents
I. The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Midlife Discourse
1)
Midlife Discourses in the Twentieth-Century United States:
An Essay on
the Sexuality,
Ideology, and Politics of "Middle-Ageism,"
Margaret
Morganroth
Gullette
2)
Deconstructing the Change: Female Maturation in Japan and North America,
Margaret
Lock
3)
The Search for Middle Age in India,
Sudhir Kakar
II. Alternative Cultural Representations of the Life Course: Mature
Adulthood Without Middle
Age
4)
Status Reversal: The Coming of Aging in Samoa,
Bradd Shore
5)
The Return of the "White Man's Burden": The Moral Discourse of
Anthropology
and the Domestic Life of Hindu Women,
Usha
Menon and
Richard A. Shweder
6)
Fertility and Maturity in Africa: Gusii Parents in Middle Adulthood,
Robert A.
LeVine
and Sarah LeVine
III. Diversity, Resistance, and Conflict Within the United
States
7) Children of the 1960s at Midlife: Generational Identity and the Family
Adaptive
Project,
Thomas S. Weisner and Lucinda P. Pernheimer
8)
Place and Race: Midlife Experience in Harlem,
Katherine Newman.

2001
Alice S. Rossi (editor)
2001 Rossi, Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and Community
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Introduction
1) Contemporary Dialogue on
Civil Society and Social
Responsibility,
Alice S. Rossi
II. Life Course and Social and Structural Variation in Social
Responsibility
2) Judgments of
One's Own Global Contributions to the Welfare
of Others: Life-Course
Trajectories and
Predictors,
William Fleeson
3) Domains and Dimensions of Social Responsibility: A Sociodemographic
Profile,
Alice S. Rossi
4) Temporal Patterns in Social
Responsibility,
David M. Almeida, Donald A.
McDonald,
John J. Havens, and Paul G.
Schervish
5) Local Caring:
Social Capital and Social Responsibility in New York's Minority
Neighborhoods,
Katherine S. Newman
6) Cultural and
Contextual Correlates of Obligation to Family and Community
among
Urban Black and Latino Adults,
Diane
Hughes
III. Social Responsibility and Human Development
7) Developmental Roots of Adult Social
Responsibility,
Alice S. Rossi
8)
The Impact of Family Problems on Social
Responsibility
, Alice S. Rossi
9) Themes and Variations in American Understandings of
Responsibility,
Hazel
Rose
Markus, Carol D.
Ryff, Alana Conner, Eden K. Pudberry, and Katherine L. Barnett
IV.
Social Responsibility and Work
10) The Association between Chronic Medical
Conditions and Work Impairment,
Ronald
C.
Kessler, Kristin D. Mickelson,
Catherine Barber, and Philip
Wang
11) The Interplay of Work and
Family and Its Impact on Community
Service,
Alice S.
Rossi
12) Social Responsibility and
Paid Work in Contemporary American
Life,
Anne Colby,
Lorrie Sippola, and
Erin Phelps
V. Summary
13) Analysis Highlights and
Overall Assessment,
Aice S.
Rossi

2004
Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, Ronald C. Kessler (editors)
2004 Brim/Ryff/Kessler, How Healthy Are We?: A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments