Sex and the seasoned woman : pursuing the passionate life / Gail Sheehy.

In this groundbreaking work, cultural observer Sheehy reveals a hidden phenomenon--increased vitality in women's sex and love lives after fifty. This is a new universe of passionate, liberated women--married and single--who are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle age and a...

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Main Author: Sheehy, Gail.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2006]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • And Now What?
  • When Is It My Time?
  • The Journey Ahead
  • Tracking the Seasoned Woman
  • Pursuit of the Passionate Life
  • The Sexual Path
  • The Dream Path
  • Heartland Women Rediscovering Sex and Dreams
  • The Spiritual Path
  • Sagas of Unseasoned Men and Women
  • The Romantic Renaissance
  • The Pilot Light Lover
  • Lusting After the Younger Lover
  • Menopausal Sex-Grin or Bear It?
  • Seasoned Sex Is in the Mind
  • Spicing Up Midlife Sex
  • Sex and the Seasoned Marriage
  • Learning to Be Alone with Your New Self
  • Designing Your New Single Life
  • A Nice Man to Visit, but I Wouldn't Want to Live There
  • The Boldness to Dream
  • Surviving His Midlife Crisis
  • Cashing In on the Sexual Diamond
  • Crossing the Sexual Border in Midlife
  • Soul Seeking
  • "I'm Giving Up Younger Men"
  • Surprise Soulmates
  • Love Tested by Fire
  • Graduating to Grandlove
  • Later-Life Romances and Remarriages
  • Sex and the Older Woman
  • How to Retire When You're Still Wired
  • Seasoned Sirens
  • Love in the Fourth Dimension.