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| Author | : Jennifer Blau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Middle-aged women |
| ISBN | : 9780987426017 |
This book peels back the layers of how it feel to be 50, revealing the naked truth behind aging for women in today's Australia. Following 50 key words, real women provide real answers, which will move and inspire you. And make you want to celebrate this milestone age, for yourself, a friend, your mum or other loved ones.
| Author | : Susan E. Edgar |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781561569793 |
| Author | : Abigail Brenner |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780742547483 |
Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.
| 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.
| Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780674011304 |
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
| Author | : Rosemary Dinnage |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781590171714 |
Some of these women knew isolation through their dedication to duty, and others through their immersion in writing, painting, or politics. Some juggled with fantasy worlds in which they could end up stranded. Others learned the fine art of survival, fighting illness, hard childhoods, or a hostile public. All of them, whether trying to construct a life or a work of art -- or both -- suggest ways in which women can choose, learn, laugh, invent, dare, and of course wholeheartedly love or hate.
| Author | : Stylist Magazine |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2018-03-01 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 0241322839 |
If you could share one lesson from your life with every woman, what would it be? Stylist magazine has asked that question of remarkable women from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport and fashion. With honesty, wit and a serious no-BS attitude, their lessons address the challenges every woman faces today, from climbing the career ladder and finding inner fulfilment, to forging authentic relationships and overcoming life's setbacks. Each of these impressive women, including actress Romola Garai and comedian Francesca Martinez, has a tale to tell and an experience to share. Empowering, engaging and unapologetically impassioned, their incisive observations will make you think, reflect - and kick serious ass. These are life lessons for women, by women.
| Author | : Martha Holstein |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2015-03-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442222883 |
Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women. Author Martha Holstein writes from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on her many years of experience in gerontology, as well as interviews and personal experience as a woman now in her seventies. The book highlights how women’s experience of late life is shaped by the effects of lifelong gender norms, by contemporary culture—from gender stereotypes to ageism—and by the political context. The book blends critique with proposals aimed at resisting damaging inequities resulting from being simultaneously old and a woman. She focuses on changes needed on multiple levels—societal, cultural, political, and individual. This interdisciplinary look at key questions around gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.
| Author | : Megan Mayhew Bergman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2015-01-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1476786569 |
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
| Author | : Elizabeth Kerri Mahon |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101478810 |
Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their lifetimes-turning heads while making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and determined the course of world events. *When Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) wasn't bathing in asses' milk, the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and forged an important political alliance with Rome against her enemies-until her dalliance with Marc Antony turned the empire against her. *Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1748), a mathematician, physicist, author, and paramour of one of the greatest minds in France, Voltaire, shocked society with her unorthodox lifestyle and intellectual prowess-and became a leader in the study of theoretical physics in France at a time when the sciences were ruled by men. *Long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1928) fought to end discrimination and the terrible crime of lynching and helped found the NAACP, but became known as a difficult woman for her refusal to compromise and was largely lost in the annals of history. *Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) had a passion for archaeology and languages, and left her privileged world behind to become one of the foremost chroniclers of British imperialism in the Middle East, and one of the architects of the modern nation of Iraq.
