Format:
1 online resource (324 pages)
ISBN:
9780813561868
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. He/She Left Her/Him -- Chapter 1. If Not -- Chapter 2. What Was Home -- Chapter 3. "Chapter Four You Break Up": A Journal -- Chapter 4. Growing Up Middle Aged -- Chapter 5. Reflections on April Fool's Day -- Chapter 6. Talaq, Divorce -- Chapter 7. No More Romance for Me -- Chapter 8. From Buddy to Joe to Harriet -- Chapter 9. So Much for "Happily Ever After" -- Chapter 10. Dear Harry: Unsent E-mails to an Ex -- Chapter 11. My Own Dance -- Chapter 12. Event Horizon -- Chapter 13. The Only Life I Have -- Chapter 14. Observing the Cormorant -- Part II. Perpectives on Being Left and Leaving -- Chapter 15. Trashed -- Chapter 16. Marriage Comes and Goes but Sex Is Forever -- Chapter 17. Lost Love: The Nature of Romantic Rejection -- Chapter 18. Leaking Affections: A Socio-psychoanalytic View -- Chapter 19. What's Really Going On Here?: The Therapist's Perspective -- Chapter 20. Divorce is Economic Suicide -- Chapter 21. Single Women at Midlife: The Always, Already Dumped -- Chapter 22. Snow White and Rose Ted Meet Their "Prince" -- Chapter 23. Left Alone: Deserted by Death or Divorce -- Chapter 24. Break-up Art -- Chapter 25. Unholy Matrimony -- About the Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813538464
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813538464
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
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