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Passion, Risk, And Adventure In The 25 Years After 50
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0374275491
EAN: 9780374275495
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life
is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our
interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our
understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as
characterized by people—between fifty and seventy-five—who
are considered “neither young nor old.” In our “third
chapters” we are beginning to redefine our views about the
casualties and opportunities of aging; we are challenging
cultural definitions of strength, maturity, power, and
sexiness. This is a chapter in life when the traditional
norms, rules, and rituals of our careers seem less
encompassing and restrictive; when many women and men seem
to be embracing new challenges and searching for greater
meaning in life. In The Third Chapter, the renowned
sociologist Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers a strong
counterpoint to the murky ambivalence that shrouds our clear
view of people in their third chapters. She challenges the
stillprevailing and anachronistic images of aging by
documenting and revealing the ways in which the years
between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most
transformative and generative time in our lives; tracing the
ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire
individual growth and cultural transformation. The women and
men whose voices fill the pages of The Third Chapter tell
passionate and poignant stories of risk and vulnerability,
failure and resilience, challenge and mastery,
experimentation and improvisation, and insight and new learning.
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