Female Midlife Crisis

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The Art of Midlife: Courage and Creative Living for Women
by Linda N. Edelstein. 215 pgs.

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The Art of Midlife illuminates the journey for women who want to create intentional, spirited lives. The book is based on Dr. Edelstein's extensive clinical practice and on interviews with "ordinary," healthy, and active women between the ages of 38-60 years old. She begins with descriptions of the dynamics of midlife, the unique opportunities to reevaluate life, and the need to mourn one's losses. The book continues with real voices, including her own, that recount the reconnection to one's self that is essential. The author faces the difficult issues of staying connected to others while reclaiming one's life and the problems that may occur. The final section of the book recounts the actions and success of women who sought a more authentic second half of life.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Relinquish the Old

1: Freedom is Daily, Prose- Bound, Routine Remembering" An Overview of Midlife Creativity

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2: "The Terrible Weight Of All This Unused Life" Relinquish the Old

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3: "Glowing Coals Under Grey Ashes" Midlife

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4: "First It Was in Black And White, and Then It Was in Color" Creativity and Insight

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Part II: Reconnect to the Self

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5: "She Must Braid Us All Together" The Psychology of Women

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6: I Am Her Only Novel" Relationships with Parents And Their Dreams for Us

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7: There's Still So Much I'D like to See" How We Are Formed by Social Forces

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8: "Once You Are Real You Can't Be Ugly" Authenticity

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9: "Finding a Fortune in The Lining of an Old Coat" Aggression and Creativity

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10: "The Long Meandering Fingers Of Ice Will Thicken" Problems in Creative Living

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Part III: Refocus the Future

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11: "Life Shrinks or Expands In Proportion to One's Courage" Finding Courage

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12: "Don't Dream It, Be It" Turning Points

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13: "I Have a Brain and a Uterus And I Use Both" Women and Work

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14: "Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do" Achievements and Dreams

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Epilogue

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Women at Midlife, in Social Work
by Sharon Mcquaide. 11 pgs.

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Facing the Fifties: From Denial to Reflection
by Peter A. O'Connor. 210 pgs.

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Understanding the experiences of being fiftysomething.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Ageing or Old?

2: The Life and Death Forces: Eros and Thanatos

3: Rite of Passage

4: Marriage, the Empty Nest and the True Self

5: Androgyny in the Fifties

6: The Grandparenting Phase: Renewal or Decay?

7: Work and the Fifties

8: Betwixt and Between: Liminality and Initiation

9: The Return: the Late Fifties

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Implications of Personal Values in Women's Midlife Development, in Counseling and Values
by Lynn Calhoun Howell. 11 pgs.

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The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self (Chap. 11 "Midlife")
by Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, Bertram J. Cohler. 470 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

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Chapter 2 the Human Environment of Infancy

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Chapter 3 Toddlerhood: the Self and Morality

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Chapter 4 the Toddler Years: Language, Play, Sex, and Anality

Chapter 5 Early Childhood

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Chapter 6 Moving into the Larger World: Middle Childhood

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Chapter 7 Adolescence and Youth

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Chapter 8 Youth and Young Adulthood: Generation, Education, and the Family

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Chapter 9 Stable Adulthood: Work

Chapter 10 Courtship, Engagement, Relationship, and Marriage

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Chapter 11 Midlife

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Chapter 13 Conclusion

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Midlife Crisis Less Common Than Many Believe, in Human Ecology
by Susan S. Lang. 1 pgs.

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The Third Age: Six Principles of Growth and Renewal After Forty
by William A. Sadler. 235 pgs.

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Medical and technological breakthroughs have given most of us the equivalent of a thirty-year life bonus. As a result, we face a new period in the middle of our lives, what Europeans call the third age, which challenges us to change the way we live and transform the way we age. But rediscovering a youthful spirit and staying truly involved in life demands an attitudinal shift, a resistance to outdated stereotypes, and an effort to balance the seemingly paradoxical pulls on our time and energy. Practically instructive and powerfully inspiring, The Third Age expertly guides us toward and through the second half of our lives.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Making the Most of Your Thirty-Year Life Bonus

2: Principle One; Balancing Mindful Reflection and Risk Taking

3: Principle Two: Developing Realistic Optimism

4: Principle Three: Creating a Positive Third-Age Identity

5: Principle Four: Redefining Our Work/ Balancing Work and Play

6: Principle Five: Balancing Personal Freedom and Intimacy

7: Principle Six: Building a More Caring Life

8: It's Your After All: Steping into More Purposeful Living

Afterword: on the Meaning of the Third Age

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The Third Career: Revisiting the Home vs. Work Choice in Middle Age
by Milica Zarkovic Bookman. 222 pgs.

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Bookman takes a detailed look at the goals and motivations of high-income middle-aged women who want to enter the labor force after having spent most of their adult lives tending their homes, raising children, and volunteering in the community. It examines the supply of their labor, their incentives, their motivations, and the fears they face as they evaluate their future options. Bookman also discusses the demand for their skills by reviewing the opportunities available to them in the labor market and by detailing what they can realistically aspire to and what obstacles they are likely to encounter. By describing the changes in the workplace that are likely to affect middle-aged women, the book offers a compelling labor market study with regard to this unique group of workers.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I REALITIES

Chapter 1: The Profile of Middle-Aged Women with Choices

Chapter 2: Evolving Expectations of Women with Choices

Part II INCENTIVES

Chapter 3 the Transformation of Aspirations

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Chapter 4: The Redefinition of Leisure

Chapter 5: The Reevaluation of Volunteer Work

Part III CONDITIONS

Chapter 7: The Accommodating Work Environment

Part IV CAPACITIES

Chapter 8: Advantages to Be Harnessed: Human Capital and Shadow Skills

Chapter 9: Obstacles to Be Overcome: Inertia, Discrimination, and Many More

Part V BENEFITS

Chapter 10 Social Benefits: the Economic Contribution of Women with Choices

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Chapter 11: Individual Benefits: Personal Fulfillment and Goal Achievement

Appendix I Method

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Appendix II Empirical Overview: Women with Choices in America and in the Sample

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Appendix III The Survey

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Mid-Life Issues and the Workplace of the 90s: A Guide for Human Resource Specialists
by Shirley A. Waskel. 182 pgs.

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The median age of workers in the U.S. will reach 36 by the year 2000. The number of workers between the ages of 35 and 47 will increase by 38%, while those aged 48 to 53 will grow by a staggering 67%. As a result, human resources managers will have to deal increasingly with the unique employee issues and personal mid-life stresses which affect work performance. Waskel discusses this "middle-aging" of the work force, and its impact on workplace productivity. Not only does Waskel's book explain the symptomology of mid-life and its effects, but also suggests programs and counseling groups, to which employees can be referred.

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Introduction

1: The Maturing Work Force: An Overview

2: Why People Act as They Do

3: Family Issues as They Relate to the Work Force

4: Mid-Life, a Time of Change

5: The Dysfunctional Workplace

6: Managers' Dilemmas

7: Technology's Impact on the Workplace

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Revisioning Aging: Empowerment of Older Women
by Jenny Onyx, Rosemary Leonard, Rosslyn Reed. 259 pgs.

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Dedication

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SECTION ONE: Contextualizing Aging

Chapter One: Growing Older, Getting Better: Than What?

Chapter Two: Preliminary Overview: "The Facts"

Chapter Three: Not Gerontology, but --

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SECTION TWO: Deconstructing Age

Chapter Four: The Invisible Woman: Older Women Workers

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Chapter Five: Unpaid Work, Grasshopper Accusations and the Threat to Social Capital

Chapter Six: What Does Retirement Mean for Women?

Chapter Seven: The "Docile/Useful" Body of the Older Woman

Chapter Eight: Aging: Encounters with the Medical Model

Chapter Nine: Benevolent Oppression: Experiences of Older Women Aging "Out of Place"

Chapter Ten: Separate Lives: Older Women, Connectedness, and Well-Being

SECTION THREE: Revisioning Aging

Chapter Eleven: Which House

Chapter Twelve: The Potential for Empowerment from a Life-Course Approach

Chapter Thirteen: The Role of Formal Organizations in the Empowerment of Older Women

Chapter Fourteen: Reflections on Death/A Celebration of Aging

Ode to the Older Woman (an affirmation- a celebration)

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Handbook on Women and Aging
by Jean M. Coyle. 484 pgs.

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Statistics show that women live longer than men, and that they constitute a substantial majority of the North American population over age 50. But lack of empirical data on aging women has helped to perpetuate numerous myths and stereotypes. This reference provides a comprehensive overview of current research on women and aging. Chapters are written by expert contributors and are grouped in sections devoted to historical and theoretical views, economic concerns, health and lifestyle issues, demographic information, and relationships. Chapters reflect research on women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, the particular needs of the rural elderly, the problem of sexism and ageism, and the impact of significant life events, such as retirement and widowhood. Chapters cite current research, and the volume closes with a selected bibliography of major studies.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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Part I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

One: Sexism and Ageism

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Two: Images of Middle-aged and Older Women: Historical, Cultural, and Personal

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Three: Witches, Widows, Wives, and Workers: The Historiography of Elderly Women in America

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Four: Images of Aging Women through the Ages

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Five: Sagacious, Sinful, or Superfluous? The Social Construction of Older Women

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Part II: Economic Issues

Six: The Economic Status of Older Women

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Seven: Middle-aged and Older Women in the Work Force

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Eight: Retirement and Women

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Part III: Health, Psychological, and Living Issues

Nine: The Health of Older Women: A Diverse Experience

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Ten: Developmental Models of Midlife and Aging in Women: Metaphors for Transcendence and for Individuality in Community

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Eleven: Life Satisfaction and Older Women: Factor Structure Consistency across Age Cohorts

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Twelve: Reminiscence among Older Women

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Thirteen: Suicidal Behavior in Middle-aged and Older Women

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Fourteen: Women Survivors: The Oldest Old

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Fifteen: Religion and Faith Development of Older Women

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Sixteen: Voluntarism among Older Women

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Seventeen: Living Arrangements for Midlife and Older Women

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Part IV: Racial, Ethnic, and Demographic Issues

Eighteen: Midlife and Older Black Women

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Nineteen: Hidden Lives: Aging and Contemporary American Indian Women

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Twenty: Issues and Trends Affecting Asian Americans, Women, and Aging

APPENDIX: ORGANIZATIONS PERTAINING TO ASIAN AMERICANS, WOMEN, AND AGING

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Twenty-One: Chicanas and Aging: Toward Definitions of Womanhood

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Twenty-Two: Rural Older Women

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Part V: Relationships

Twenty-Three: Family Relationships of Midlife and Older Women

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Twenty-Four: Single Women in Later Life

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Twenty-Five: Friendship Patterns among Older Women

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Twenty Six: Older Women and Widowhood

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Twenty-Seven: Women and Caregivers for the Elderly

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Twenty-Eight: Fathers, Daughters, and Caregiving: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Life-Course Social Science

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Twenty-Nine: Conclusions and Research Implications

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Selected Bibliography

Index

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The Changing Lives of American Women
by Steven D. McLaughlin. 252 pgs.

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Foreword

Prefatory Note

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Part One: Perspective and Approach

1: Introduction

2: The Historical Context

Part Two: Behavioral Changes

3: Educational Attainment

4: Marriage and Divorce

5: Premarital Sexual Behavior

6: Labor Force Participation

7: Childbearing

Part Three: Attitudinal Changes

8: The Demographic Context for Attitudinal Change

9: Change and Continuity in Women's Attitudes

Part Four: Summary and Outlook

10: Changes Across Three Generations of American Women

Appendixes

References

Index

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