Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
by Suzanne Braun Levine
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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 show more territory that lies ahead. show lessTags
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Women in second adulthood as we hit our fifties. You're not who you were, only older. I'm down to what matters, what works, and what's next. The "fuck you" fifties. When you stop 'bleeding down' your wisdom stops going out. Ten more years to become a wise elder. Post-menopausal zest!
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- Original publication date
- 2005
- Epigraph
- The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like but you will have to leap.
Much can be said for savoir-faire,
But to r... (show all)ejoice when no one else is there
Is even harder than it is to weep;
No one is watching, but you have to leap.
Our dream of safety has to disappear.
--W.H. Auden, "Leap Before You Look" - Dedication
- For my mother, Esther Bernson Braun
- First words
- My first step into Second Adulthood was backward off a ninety-foot cliff.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)At the same time, each loop of my trajectory takes me somewhere I haven't been, to something I can only know when I get there.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 305.2442 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Age groups Early adulthood
- LCC
- HQ1059.4 .L48 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
