Women Rowing North

Women Rowing North
Author: Mary Pipher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1632869608

New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller* Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Bestseller A guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age by the author of Reviving Ophelia. Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. “If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully,” Pipher writes, “we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent.”

Bright Lights, Prairie Dust

Bright Lights, Prairie Dust
Author: Karen Grassle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1647423147

Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc. In this candid memoir, Grassle reveals her journey to succeed as an actress even as she struggles to overcome depression, combat her own dependence on alcohol, and find true love. With humor and hard-won wisdom, Grassle takes readers on an inspiring journey through the political turmoil on ’60s campuses, on to studies with some of the most celebrated artists at the famed London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and ultimately behind the curtains of Broadway stages and storied Hollywood sets. In these pages, readers meet actors and directors who have captivated us on screen and stage as they fall in love, betray and befriend, and don costumes only to reveal themselves. We know Karen Grassle best as the proud prairie woman Caroline Ingalls, with her quiet strength and devotion to family, but this memoir introduces readers to the complex, funny, rebellious, and soulful woman who, in addition to being the force behind those many strong women she played, fought passionately—as a writer, producer, and activist—on behalf of equal rights for women. Raw, emotional, and tender, Bright Lights celebrates and honors womanhood, in all its complexity.

From Old Woman to Older Women

From Old Woman to Older Women
Author: Sally Chivers
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780814209356

Drawing on the perspective of aging bodies in order to approach the study of contemporary Canadian women's fiction, the author seeks to understand body criticism in general because elderly physical experiences lay bare crucial assumptions of thinking through the body. It also investigates the mechanisms and effects of constructions of aging in order to combat the automatically negative reactions most readers have to the topic of old age.

A Glorious Freedom

A Glorious Freedom
Author: Lisa Congdon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452156212

“The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist). The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves. With age we gain the confidence to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon explores the power of women over the age of forty who are thriving and living life on their own terms. A Glorious Freedom includes profiles, interviews, and essays from women such as Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Child, Cheryl Strayed, and many others who have found creative fulfillment and accomplished great things in the second half of their lives. Each section is lavishly illustrated and hand-lettered in Congdon's signature style.

No Stopping Us Now

No Stopping Us Now
Author: Gail Collins
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0316286494

The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not. In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.

And Bloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically

And Bloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically
Author: Denise Boomkens
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1784727903

*** 'Are you aging fabulously? Here's how.' Anna Murphy, The Times 'A lovely book celebrating female beauty over 40.' Top Sante 'You become what you see. What you see determines what you believe - and the most powerful way of inspiring people is with images. My goal with AndBloom is to motivate women to embrace life without fear. To provide examples of women between the age of 40 and, currently, 100, so that any woman can open this book and see themselves recognized.' Denise Boomkens launched the AndBloom project on Instagram in 2018, to create a 'happy place for women over 40' - a community where women can be themselves and where aging is celebrated instead of feared. In this, her first book, she shares her own experiences of aging and brings together portraits and interviews with more than 100 extraordinary 'ordinary' women to create both a gloriously illustrated celebration of female beauty over 40 and an empowering handbook to aging happily.

The Winning Dating Formula for Women Over 50

The Winning Dating Formula for Women Over 50
Author: Lisa Copeland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Courtship
ISBN: 9781492746263

(So popular, we've published a second edition!) Did you ever think you'd be in the dating trenches at this point in your life? It's tough and it's completely different than dating when you were younger. No one hands you a rulebook. Until now... Lisa Copeland, the expert on over 50's dating, has been right where you are. Her new book puts the dating tools and skills she teaches her clients into 7 easy steps. Whether you've been dating for years and could use a boost or you're just getting started in the dating game, the information in this book will be your guide for navigating this new world of dating over 50. Lisa walks you through: * The rules for dating at this age. * How to interpret male behavior. * Getting a clear vision of the man you want in your life. * How to increase your dating confidence. * The in's and out's of online dating - writing a profile, contact with men, and turning online flirtation into great dates. * How to stay safe and avoid dating scams. * A dating blueprint to put your new knowledge into action. After reading, you'll know: * How to get a date with a man you are interested in. * The exact etiquette for dating after 50 - who pays, when to have sex and how to get a second date. * How to write an online dating profile that will have men lining up to meet you! * Who the right kind of man is for you... And who is NOT the man for you. * What makes YOU (yes, you) irresistible to men.

Face It

Face It
Author: Vivian Diller, Ph.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-02-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1401927815

Let’s face it: everyone’s getting older. But millions of women, raised to believe that success and happiness are based on their intelligence and accomplishments, face an unexpected challenge: the physical realities of aging. If looks are not supposed to matter, why do so many women panic as their appearance changes? Their dilemma stems from two opposing societal views of beauty which lead to two different approaches to aging. Should women simply grow old naturally since their looks don’t define them, or should they fight the signs of aging since beauty and youth are their currency and power? This Beauty Paradox leaves many women feeling stuck. Face It, by Vivian Diller, Ph.D., is a psychological guide to help women deal with the emotions brought on by their changing appearances. As a model turned psychotherapist, Diller has had the opportunity to examine the world of beauty from two very different vantage points. This unique perspective helped her develop a six-step program that begins with recognizing "uh-oh" moments that reveal the reality of changing looks, and goes on to identify the masks used to cover deeper issues and define the role beauty plays in a woman’s life, and ends with bidding adieu to old definitions of beauty, so women can enjoy their appearance—at any age!

Goddesses in Older Women

Goddesses in Older Women
Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0061852775

At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one that is generally uncelebrated in popular culture -- she can choose to mourn what has gone before, or she can embrace the juicy-crone years. In this celebration of Act Three, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman, names the powerful new energies and potentials -- or archetypes -- that come into the psyche at this momentous time, suggesting that women getting older have profound and exciting reasons for welcoming the other side of fifty.

Self-Help Support Groups For Older Women

Self-Help Support Groups For Older Women
Author: Lenard W. Kaye
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2022-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317711521

This work is based upon a research study whose purpose was to collect new information about the special benefits and drawbacks of formal organizations' efforts at social network building for older women. In it, a two-tiered investigation was carried out: a national review of a select group of model self-help support programmes for older women throughout the United States; and an in-depth community case study of a nationally recognized model program of self-help support groups, leadership training, networking and community outreach/education for older women. It provides the research-oriented reader with scientific evidence to assess the relative efficacy of self-help group programming.