Cargando…

Cut loose : (mostly) older women talk about the end of (mostly) long-term relationships /

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 ar...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maglin, Nan Bauer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "If no" and "I give my husband fish sausage" / Page Dougherty Delano
  • What was home / Laurie Silver
  • "Chapter four you break up": a journal / Octavia Nevins
  • Growing up middle aged / Marita Lopez-Mena
  • Reflections on April Fool's Day / Diane Raymond
  • Talaq, divorce / Zohra Saed
  • No more romance for me / Sue O'Sullivan
  • From Buddy to Joe to Harriet / Harriet Luria
  • So much for "Happily ever after" / Naomi Woronov
  • Dear Harry: unsent e-mails to an Ex / Susan Becker
  • My own dance / Margie Kaplan
  • Event horizon / Mary Stuart
  • The only life I have / Janice Stieber Rous
  • "Observing the cormorant" / Phyllis Berman
  • "Trashed" / Carol Burdick
  • Marriage comes and goes, but sex is forever / Anne Simcock
  • Last love: the nature of romantic rejection / Helen Fisher
  • Leaking affections: a socio-psychoanalytic view / Catherine B. Silver
  • What's really going on here? The therapist's perspective / Marilyn Ogus Katz
  • Divorce is economic suicide / Nancy Dailey
  • Single women at midlife: the always, already dumped / Nancy Berke
  • Snow white and rose red meet their "Prince" / Isabella Giovanni and Annie Peacock
  • Left alone: deserted by death or divorce / Merle Froschl
  • Splitsville: break-up literature / Nan Bauer-Maglin
  • Break-up art / Louise Weinberg
  • "Unholy matrimony" and "The chore" / Diana Festa
  • About the contributors.