The bitch is back : older, wiser, and (getting) happier / edited by Cathi Hanauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanauer, Cathi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Social conditions--Case studies.

Women.

Man-woman relationships--United States--Case studies.

Man-woman relationships.

Women--United States--Attitudes--Case studies.

Women--Sexual behavior--United States--Case studies.

Interpersonal relations--United States--Case studies.

Interpersonal relations.

American essays--Women authors.

American essays.

Women authors, American--Literary collections.

Women authors, American.

Aging--Literary collections.

Aging.

Women--Sexual behavior.

Social conditions.

United States.

Women--Attitudes.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Essays.

Case studies.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxix, 332 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]

Summary:

"More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back--along with sixteen captivating new voices--sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women's lives today."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

1. Me, myself, and my midlife choices: my way or the highway

Five crucial things the fifty-three-year-old bitch knows that the thirty-nine-year-old bitch didn't (yet) / Pam Houston

Vagina. Notwithstanding / Jennifer Finney Boylan

Gone girl: what I (don't) owe my mother / Anna March

Wrinkles in time. Or not. / Debora L. Spar

What's love got to do with it?: I'm havin' my baby / Lizzie Skurnick

The "other woman" then and now / Kerry Herlihy

Dirty work / Kathy Thomas, as told to Cathi Hanauer

2. Sex, lies, and happy(ish) endings: because this ain't Disney, dolls. It's life

The coming of age: sex 102 / Sarah Crichton

Still in the heart / Hazel McClay

My filthy little heart: Love it? Or lose it? / Claire Johnson

Once a week: take it or leave it / Grace O'Malley

Fifty shades of free / Robin Rinaldi

My war with sex / Lynn Darling

3. To Hell, and to hold

Her life. My life: two women, two worlds / Erin White

Jason, me, and Jesus: the other guy in our relationship / Veronica Chambers

Trading places: we both wanted to stay home. He won. But so did I. / Julianna Baggett

Beyond the myth of co-parenting: what we lost

and gained

by abandoning equality / Hope Edelman

Now there were two / Jill Bialosky

Living alone: a fantasy / Sandra Tsing Loh

4. Starting over

Second time around: letting go of convention (and listening to my mother) / Kate Christensen

What was in it for ME: saying yes, saying no, leaning in, leaning out / Rabia Hussein

Stepping off the scale / Ann Hood

Getting it right the third time. Or wrong. You tell me. / Karen Karbo

Yes / Susanna Sonnenberg

A new life under the ladder / Cynthia Kling.

ISBN:

9780062389510

0062389513

OCLC:

935194040