Product Description: Middle-aged and elderly women discuss the challenges, as well as the opportunities, of refashioning their identities in conversations with NPR journalist Connie Goldman.

Product Description: An inspiring guide to maximizing creativity and happiness in the second half of life Suzanne Braun Levine follows her groundbreaking Inventing the Rest of Our Lives with fresh insights, research, and practical advice on the challenges and unexpected rewards for women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies...read more

A lighthearted road map through the challenging terrain of middle life for today's women features anecdotal stories, scientific information, and the author's own personal experiences to share inspirational insights into how to render the second half of life a period of accomplishment, passion, and self-discovery. Reprint.

Product Description: "Embracing Your Power Woman" is more than a book, it is an adventure for women in the second half of life to explore, express, discover, and embrace their developing Power Women. Essays, anecdotes, mythoglogy, and weekly exercises guide the reader through the Eleven Points of Power that take her into the depths of her psyche to review her fears, meet with her adolescent self, rescue the seed of her original feminine power, discover her purpose, and return to the world with a new sense of personl direction and freedom to become an enlightened leader in her community, her country, and her world...read more

Product Description: Trotman and Brody, along with expert contributors, view older women through a feminist lens and examine social constructs concerning aspects of aging, caregiving, elders' relationships with family, health, body image, and sexuality concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Still a breaking-through-the-barriers book after 22 years, this expanded edition of the classic begins with a tribute by Lise Weil, "In the Service of Truth: Remembering Barbara Macdonald." Barbara died at the age of 86 in June 2000. It also contains two talks Barbara gave, "Professionalism Is Not Benign" and "Old Women's Human Rights." An afterword by Cynthia Rich points to the impact Barbara made on the understanding of women and ageing and promises that she will continue to have a major impact on our lives. "Barbara was the first to identify ageism as a central feminist issue...to point out that young women's alienation from old women, their dread of becoming them, their revulsion toward old women's bodies, is the direct result of society ('Your power as a younger woman is measured by the distance you can keep between you and older women')."--Lise Weil (view table of contents)

Product Description: "About this issue of aging, I want to make a terribly important point. People decide to get old. I've seen them do it. It's as if they've said 'Right, that's it, now I'm going to get old.' Then they become old. Why they do this, I don't know...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The successor to On Women Turning 50 presents interviews with and photographs of twenty inspiring, spirited sixty-year-old women who eschew any limits on their lives, including Ann Richards, Jane Goodall, and Mary Travers. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Brief entries advise women to appreciate the wisdom they have gained with age and experience and to apply it to everyday opportunities (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Relationships Between Women in Later Life makes a significant contribution to the literature available on older women through its recognition of the diversity that exists among older women and of the different types of social and familial bonds that characterize their individual lifestyles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How women decide to balance work, marriage and motherhood; what happens as they age as a result of their decisions; and gender stereotypes of young, middle-aged and older women are among the topics examined in this volume. Relating research on older women to theoretical and conceptual developments in the psychology of adult development and ageing, contributions also include a life-span approach to attachment theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gaining strength and hope from recovery groups, older women share experiences with addictions or co-dependence

Product Description: Book by Sage, Lorna