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9780452287211

Inventing the Rest of Our Lives Women in Second Adulthood

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    9780452287211

  • ISBN10:

    0452287219

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-27
  • Publisher: Plume

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The first editor of Ms.magazine helps women address the three crucial questions of second adulthood: What matters? What works? What’s next? New brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37 million women now entering their fifties and sixties—a unique generation—are refashioning their lives, with dramatic results. They have fulfilled all the prescribed roles— daughter, wife, mother, employee, but they’re not ready to retire. They want to experience more. Suzanne Braun Levine gives us a fun, smart, and tremendously informative road map through the challenging and uncharted territory that lies ahead. Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life.” —Gloria Steinem I found so many resonances with my own experiences in this book… It will have a huge impact and will clarify so many things for so many women.”—Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., author of In a Different Voiceand The Birth of Pleasure Suzanne Braun Levine made me understand why I always envied older women . . . life just gets better—more outrageous, more radical, more passionate, less fraught, wiser, deeper, and kinder.” —Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues A you-go-girl manual for the menopause crowd.”—People

Author Biography

SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE is a writer, editor, and nationally recognized authority on women, media matters, and family issues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Getting to What Matters: Letting Go and Saying No
You're Not Who You Were, Only Olderp. 3
Second Adolescence: A Second Chance at Growing Up Strongp. 25
Defiance: Speaking Up, Speaking Out, Speaking Your Mindp. 40
The Fertile Void: Taking Your Timep. 56
Finding Out What Works: Recalibrating Your Life
Reconsidering Work and Beginning to Recalibrate Your Lifep. 81
Rediscovering Your Passion, Facing Your Fearp. 106
Redefining Intimacy: Love, Sex, Friendship, and the New Youp. 123
Confronting Adversityp. 149
Moving On to What's Next: Making Peace and Taking Charge
Health, Beauty, and What You Cannot Changep. 179
Generations: Graduating from Our Child and Parent Voice to (at Last!) Our Own Adult Voicep. 203
Becoming a Critical Mass: The Personal Is Still Politicalp. 223
Riding the Spiralp. 235
Bibliographyp. 243
Web Sites and Organizationsp. 249
Indexp. 255
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