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Sex and the Seasoned Woman
Gail Sheehy
Pursuing the Passionate Life
Random House
January 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 1400062632
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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