CUT LOOSE : : (Mostly) Older Women on the End of their (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships /

CUT LOOSE : : (Mostly) Older Women on the End of their (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships / / ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin.

Although breakups-whether celebrity or everyday-are a constant source of fascination, surprisingly little attention has been given to women who are cut loose in their later years. This is a book about (mostly) long-term relationships that have come apart. Each woman involved, the majority of whom ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bauer-Maglin, Nan,
Becker, Susan,
Berke, Nancy,
Berman, Phyllis,
Burdick, Carol,
Dailey, Nancy,
Dougherty Delano, Page,
Festa, Diana,
Fisher, Helen,
Froschl, Merle,
Giovanni, Isabella,
Kaplan, Margie,
Lopez-Mena, Marita,
Luria, Harriet,
Nevins, Octavia,
O'Sullivan, Sue,
Ogus Katz, Marilyn,
Peacock, Annie,
Raymond, Diane,
Saed, Zohra,
Silver, Catherine B.,
Silver, Laurie,
Simcock, Anne,
Stieber Rous, Janice,
Stuart, Mary,
Weinberg, Louise,
Woronov, Naomi,
HerausgeberIn:
Bauer-Maglin, Nan,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: HE/SHE LEFT HER/HIM
  • "If Not" and "I Give My Husband Fish Sausage"
  • What Was Home
  • "Chapter Four You Break Up": A Journal
  • Growing Up Middle Aged
  • Reflections on April Fool's Day
  • Talaq, Divorce
  • No More Romance for Me
  • From Buddy to Joe to Harriet
  • So Much for "Happily Ever After"
  • Dear Harry: Unsent E-mails to an Ex
  • My Own Dance
  • Event Horizon
  • The Only Life I Have
  • Observing the Cormorant
  • PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON BEING LEFT AND LEAVING
  • Trashed
  • Marriage Comes and Goes but Sex Is Forever
  • Lost Love: The Nature of Romantic Rejection
  • Leaking Affections: A Socio-psychoanalytic View
  • What's Really Going on Here?: The Therapist's Perspective
  • Divorce Is Economic Suicide
  • Single Women at Midlife: The Always, Already Dumped
  • Snow White and Rose Red Meet Their "Prince"
  • Left Alone: Deserted by Death or Divorce
  • Splitsville: Break-up Literature
  • Break-up Art
  • Unholy Matrimony
  • The Chore
  • About the Contributors

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