Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000E97ZSC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. 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. Sheehy delineates a crucial link between cultivating a new dream and reopening the pathway to intimacy and sexual pleasure. 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. She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Strong and soft. Boomer generation women in midlife are open to sex, love, dating, new dreams, exploring spirituality, and revitalizing their marriages as never before. 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 thei
10)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Sheehy, a self-described seasoned woman, set off in search of others like herself. (On sale Jan. What makes a difference these days is the opportunities afforded by online dating sites. Her premise? There's "a new universe of lusty, liberated women, some married and some not, who are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle age." Aside from the question whether the 200-odd women she contacts constitute a representative universe, her claim is hardly revelatory. . Short on research, Sheehy, best known for Passages, makes do by stringing together colorful stories of the women she interviews, drawing inflated conclusions from their lives and claiming it all as p
My absolute favorite quote is one excerpted from this book I'm a guy. My absolute favorite quote is one excerpted from this book: about soul-mates being forged, not found (top of p.2My absolute favorite quote is one excerpted from this book Yarko I'm a guy. My absolute favorite quote is one excerpted from this book: about soul-mates being forged, not found (top of p.245). I saw it somewhere, never having read the book. I quoted this so many times, I finally bought the kindle version of this book. 5). I saw it somewhere, never having read the book. I quoted this so many times, I finally bought the kindle version of this book. "Ladies over Ladies over 40 a good read, ladies over 50 a must readlol LidiaO I had so much fun reading this book. Gail Sheehy writes eloquently, yet humorously, about how to pursue a passionate life when this culture seems ready to put most of us over 50 to pasture The stories she shares are uplifting and show how many women tha. 0 a good read, ladies over 50 a must readlol" according to LidiaO. I had so much fun reading this book. Gail Sheehy writes eloquently, yet humorously, about how to pursue a passionate life when this culture seems ready to put most of us over 50 to pasture The stories she shares are uplifting and show how many women tha. Kathy Perutz said Avoid this Book. Dreadful. Ponderous, self-evident textbook type book by an author who knows much much better. Should never have been oublished.