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The menopause has become a major health issue and women are demanding more information. This book explains the biology of the menopause in straightforward everyday terms and offers women a clear picture of the process, symptoms and treatments.

Menopause --- Popular works. --- Middle-aged women --- Health and hygiene.

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Aging by the Book offers an innovative look at the ways in which middle age, which for centuries had been considered the prime of life, was transformed during the Victorian era into a period of decline. Single women were nearing middle age at thirty, and mothers in their forties were expected to become sexless; meanwhile, fortyish men anguished over whether their "time for love had gone by." Looking at well-known novels of the period, as well as advertisements, cartoons, and medical and advice manuals, Kay Heath uncovers how this ideology of decline permeated a changing culture. Aging by the Book unmasks and confronts midlife anxiety by examining its origins, demonstrating that our current negative attitude toward midlife springs from Victorian roots, and arguing that only when we understand the culturally constructed nature of age can we expose its ubiquitous and stealthy influence.

Middle-aged women --- Older women (Middle-aged women) --- Middle-aged persons --- Women --- Attitudes. --- Social conditions. --- Great Britain --- History --- Social life and customs

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Revenge --- Murderers --- Middle-aged women --- Fugitives from justice --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Upper Peninsula (Mich.)

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A woman’s middle age had traditionally been regarded as a time of loss and decline. But in the wake of the women's movement and other societal and cultural events, a profound shift has taken place. Far from being marginalized, midlife women stand at the forefront of a great transformation of cultural perceptions and attitudes. They are rejecting stereotypes, embracing new opportunities, and forming what this important book terms "a new collective middle-aged identity." Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives analyzes the challenges, benefits, coping strategies, problems, and accomplishments associated with the midlife experience. Ten chapters present the state of research (and correct longstanding myths) regarding significant aspects of middle-aged women's lives: Mind-body: illness, body image, exercise Love, romance, and sexuality Friendship and support systems "The sandwich generation" Re-creating the role of grandmothers Retirement and financial stability Using personal empowerment to empower others Quality of life and future directions Women over 50 bridges a major knowledge gap in the feminist-psychology literature, making it an essential resource for clinicians and advanced students. It balances optimism and realism about older women’s lives—and younger women’s futures.

Middle-aged women. --- Middle-aged women --- Middle age. --- Psychology. --- Mid-life --- Midlife --- Adulthood --- Older women (Middle-aged women) --- Middle-aged persons --- Women --- Psychology, clinical. --- Consciousness. --- Sociology. --- Developmental psychology. --- Sexual behavior. --- Geriatrics. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Gender Studies. --- Sexual Behavior. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Older people --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Spirit --- Self --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene

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Although breakups-whether celebrity or everyday-are a constant source of fascination, surprisingly little attention has been given to women who are cut loose in their later years. This is a book about (mostly) long-term relationships that have come apart. Each woman involved, the majority of whom are over sixty, tells of her experience through journal entries, essays, poetry, or stories. Although in many senses they have been abandoned, they have also been set free, untethered, and, for some, liberated sexually, mentally, or emotionally. The book is divided into two major sections. The pieces in the first part are personal narratives. Among the varied voices, we hear from women in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships who have been left by their partners or who have decided to leave them. In the second section, the contributors look at being left and leaving from psychological, sociological, economic, sexual, medical, anthropological, and literary perspectives. Other essays explore the shared experiences of specific classes of women, such as single women, widows, or abandoned daughters.

Middle-aged women --- Women --- Man-woman relationships --- Separation (Psychology) --- Older women (Middle-aged women) --- Middle-aged persons --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Breaking up (Interpersonal relations) --- Loss of loved one by separation --- Love loss (Psychology) --- Farewells --- Interpersonal relations --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Loss (Psychology) --- Psychology