Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Helps professional women experiencing feelings of disempowerment and dissatisfaction regain the confidence, courage, and energy to take control of their livesIdentifies 12 crises professional women face today and offers specific advice and tools for overcoming themDraws on interviews with over one hundred women, offering inspiring stories and practical advice for addressing and resolving disempowermentThousands of professional women, though outwardly successful, find themselves in the midst of a crisis, believing that they've sacrificed meaning, fulfillment, and balance in their lives to achie

Midlife crisis. --- Middle-aged women --- Women in the professions. --- Professions --- Crisis, Middle age --- Crisis, Midlife --- Mid-life crisis --- Middle age crisis --- Middle age --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This book recounts the surprising origin story of the "midlife crisis." Before becoming a gendered cliché, the midlife crisis gained traction as a feminist concept with the publication of journalist Gail Sheehy's best-selling Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. Coined by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in the 1950s, the term was largely neglected until Sheehy re-invented it as a feminist idea that challenged the double standard of middle age. Widely popular, 'midlife crisis' was subsequently appropriated and redefined as a masculinist concept by psychological and psychiatric experts. Susanne Schmidt's telling reveals the midlife crisis' remarkable role in modern American life: first to valorize the emergence of female breadwinners and dual-income families, then to reassert gender order in times of social change. A must-read"--

Developmental psychology --- United States --- Midlife crisis --- Feminist psychology --- Psychology --- Crisis, Middle age --- Crisis, Midlife --- Mid-life crisis --- Middle age crisis --- Middle age --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Sheehy, Gail. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- United States of America --- Feminism --- Gender --- Middle-aged --- Popular culture --- Book