A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life
experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly,
mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive.
Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She
could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully
and passionately in the second half of life.
In her most groundbreaking work since "Passages" and "The Silent
Passage," bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural
phenomenon-increased vitality in women's sex and love lives after
fifty. Sex and the Seasoned Woman is the story of an intimate
revolution taking place under our very noses.
Boomer generation women in midlife are open to sex, love, dating,
new dreams, exploring spirituality, and revitalizing their
marriages as never before. 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 are now realizing they
don't have to. As life spans grow longer and as societal
constraints continue to loosen, older women-once free of the
exhausting demands of young children, needy husbands, and demanding
careers-find themselves ready to pursue the passionate life. They
embrace their "second adulthood" as a period of reawakening.
Written in Sheehy's singularly compelling style, combining
interviews and research, this book gives voice to more than a
hundred fascinating and colorful women. The inspiring stories tell
of wives who reinvigorate their marriages after their children
leave the nest as well as divorced, widowed, and long-single women
who find new dreams and new loves. Sheehy delineates a crucial link
between cultivating a new dream and reopening the pathway to
intimacy and sexual pleasure. She also examines the latest medical
breakthroughs addressing symptoms that have unnecessarily curtailed
women's sex lives.
From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover,
to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger,
to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories
from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even
nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In
them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to
recognize and understand our own lives.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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