Women in Midlife Crisis
Title | Women in Midlife Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Conway |
Publisher | Living Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-10 |
Genre | Married women |
ISBN | 9780842383837 |
A carefully researched, compassionate volume of encouragement and direction for women coping with midlife. This book is equally helpful for counselors and families.
Why We Can't Sleep
Title | Why We Can't Sleep PDF eBook |
Author | Ada Calhoun |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0802147860 |
The acclaimed author explores the hidden crises of Gen X women in this “engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage [and] pop culture analysis” (The New Republic). Ada Calhoun was married with children and a good career—and yet she was miserable. She thought she had no right to complain until she realized how many other Generation X women felt the same way. What could be behind this troubling trend? To find out, Calhoun delved into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw that Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age—problems that were being largely overlooked. Calhoun spoke with women across America who were part of the generation raised to “have it all.” She found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. And instead of being heard, they were being told to lean in, take “me-time,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament. She offers practical advice on how to ourselves out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
Midlife Crisis at 30
Title | Midlife Crisis at 30 PDF eBook |
Author | Lia Macko |
Publisher | Rodale |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2004-03-18 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 9781579548674 |
A guide for professional women struggling with burnout analyzes the social and psychological factors that affect a woman's career and relationships, and offers strategies for achieving a healthy personal and professional balance.
Midlife Crisis
Title | Midlife Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Schmidt |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2020-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022668699X |
The phrase “midlife crisis” today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility—an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age—but before it become a gendered cliché, it gained traction as a feminist concept. Journalist Gail Sheehy used the term to describe a midlife period when both men and women might reassess their choices and seek a change in life. Sheehy’s definition challenged the double standard of middle age—where aging is advantageous to men and detrimental to women—by viewing midlife as an opportunity rather than a crisis. Widely popular in the United States and internationally, the term was quickly appropriated by psychological and psychiatric experts and redefined as a male-centered, masculinist concept. The first book-length history of this controversial concept, Susanne Schmidt’s Midlife Crisis recounts the surprising origin story of the midlife debate and traces its movement from popular culture into academia. Schmidt’s engaging narrative telling of the feminist construction—and ensuing antifeminist backlash—of the midlife crisis illuminates a lost legacy of feminist thought, shedding important new light on the history of gender and American social science in the 1970s and beyond.
Midlife, No Crisis
Title | Midlife, No Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Levine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781736159408 |
In this useful and lovely guidebook to midlife for women, life and health coach Lisa Levine provides easy, actionable tools to help readers let go of what's holding them back and become the best version of themselves. Packed with humor, inspirational quotes, and practical advice, Midlife, No Crisis encourages readers to practice self-care, cultivate positive habits, and overcome fear so that they can start living an awesome life.
Women in Mid-life Crisis
Title | Women in Mid-life Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Conway |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1984-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780842383790 |
This carefully researched, compassionate volume of encouragement and direction for women coping with mid-life is equally helpful for counselors and families.
The Pandemic Midlife Crisis
Title | The Pandemic Midlife Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Sprenger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2021-10-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Gen X women were overwhelmed and stretched like never before by the COVID-19 pandemic. They were hit hard in all of their many roles--as workers, as caregivers, and more. In this essay collection, 31 midlife women describe their experiences confronting the daily challenges of pandemic life. They are writers, teachers, artists, mothers, daughters, caregivers, activists, friends, and neighbors. Their stories highlight change, flexibility, isolation, connection, loss, and ingenuity, but at the core of each piece is resilience. The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink takes readers behind the news headlines of job losses, virtual schooling, and quarantines and into the lives of real midlife women who have found themselves on the brink of so many things during this pandemic: crisis and reinvention, breakdowns and breakthroughs. Within the stories of this collection--the 5th HerStories Project anthology--it is our hope that you'll find the comfort and connection of knowing you are not alone right now.