Gray Love : : Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60 / / ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Daniel E. Hood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abercrombie, Barbara,; Bauer-Maglin, Nan,; Bickley, Susan,; Blak, Judith Ugelow,; Bogen, Phyllis,; Broadwell, Laura,; Bronson, Jim,; Brown, Stephanie M.,; Carito, Phyllis,; Dunn, Sarah,; Fails, Bonnie,; Freed, Alice F.,; Friedensohn, Doris,; Goldie, Sandi,; Hill, Isabel,; Hood, Daniel E.,; Jacobson, Jan,; Josefowitz, Natasha,; Kaplan, Margie,; Katz, Jonathan Ned,; Korman, Candida B.,; Lauter, Paul,; Leung, Jean Y.,; Levy, David,; Lewittes, Hedva,; Locke, Elizabeth,; Manfred, Erica,; McVay, Cynthia,; Millett, Stacey Parkins,; Moore, Linda Wright,; O’Malley, Susan,; Page, Angela,; Peckham, Irvin,; Rogers, Amy,; Roth, Eugene,; Schwartz, Mimi,; Smith, Dustin Beall,; Speer, Stephanie,; Stein, Neil,; Thompson, Tierl,; Valenti, Vincent,; Walters, Idris,; Weisser, Susan Ostrov,; Wiesner, William,; Zabriskie, Rett,
• HerausgeberIn: Bauer-Maglin, Nan,; Hood, Daniel E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connect...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Advance praise for Gray Love
• Introduction
• Prelude
• Looking at Sixty
• PART I To Be or Not To Be in a Relationship: Tales of Humor, Disappointment, Rewards, and Personal Insight
• Not Jane Eyre’s Story
• Discovery through Online Dating Sites: A Woman’s Perspective
• Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
• Confessions of an Online Dater
• Advertisement for Myself
• What Would I Wear?
• Something from Everyone
• A (Mostly) Amusing Exercise in Futility
• Rick Redux
• You Say Potato
• Three Dates
• Dreams and Matches in an Unsure Virtual World
• In Transition, Not Seeking for Now
• “Do You Get It Yet?”
• On the Road
• Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
• An Octogenarian’s Adventures in Online Dating
• Coping with COVID-19
• It’s Valentine’s Day. So What!
• What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
• Gray Love en Noir: African American Women Flying Solo by Choice and by Chance
• Passion and Prejudice
• PART II The Complications and Pleasures of Elder Relationships
• Checking a Different Box
• Weume
• Begin Again?
• The Wizard of Algo
• Date, Marry, Repeat
• Late in the Dating Game: Walked, Homered, Fouled Out
• Matchmaker, Matchmaker!
• A Cozy, Crowded Bed
• Our Bench and Other Late-Life Wonders
• Love after Seventy and Eighty
• Where Is This Going?
• Pleasures and Complications: Living Apart Together
• Parallel Matches
• Reflections on “Old Love”
• A Vine of Roses
• From Texas to Ohio
• Till Illness Do Us Part?
• What Remains Has Just Begun
• At Once
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors