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How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women
Henry Holt
April 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0805077111
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Relationships
When Sue Shellenbarger wrote about her midlife crises in her
award-winning Wall Street Journal Work & Family
column, the volume and emotional intensity of the responses
from her readers was stunning. As she heard story after
story of middle-aged women radically changing course in
search of greater fulfillment, a trend began to emerge: an
entire generation of women was experiencing the tumultuous
transition of midlife in ways not seen before.
To
capture this paradigm shift, Shellenbarger combines original
research data and interviews with more than fifty women
who've navigated their own midlife crisis. Long stereotyped
as the province of men, today the midlife crisis is reported
with greater frequency by women than men. Emboldened by the
financial independence to act upon midlife desires,
exhausted by decades of playing supermom and repressing the
feminine sides of themselves to succeed at work, women are
shedding the age roles of the past in favor of new pursuits
in adventure, sports, sex, romance, education, and
spirituality. And in the process they are rewriting all the
rules.
Beyond defining a new phenomenon, The
Breaking Point shows how various options women use to
cope with the turmoil of midlife-from playing it safe to
dynamiting their lives-have a profound impact on their
families, careers, and our culture at large. Provocative,
insightful, and resonant, The Breaking Point is sure
to be one of the most controversial and talked-about
publications of 2005.
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