Cut loose : (mostly) older women talk about the end of (mostly) long-term relationships / edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maglin, Nan Bauer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Separation (Psychology)--Case studies.

Separation (Psychology).

Man-woman relationships--Case studies.

Man-woman relationships.

Women--Psychology--Case studies.

Women.

Middle-aged women--Psychology--Case studies.

Middle-aged women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 are over sixty, tells of her experience through journal entries, essays, poetry, or stories. Although in many senses they have been abandoned, they have also been set free, untethered, and, for some, liberated sexually, mentally, or emotionally. The book is divided into two major sections. The pieces in the first part are personal narratives. Among the varied voices, we hear from women in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships who have been left by their partners or who have decided to leave them. In the second section, the contributors look at being left and leaving from psychological, sociological, economic, sexual, medical, anthropological, and literary perspectives. Other essays explore the shared experiences of specific classes of women, such as single women, widows, or abandoned daughters.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: HE/SHE LEFT HER/HIM

"If Not" and "I Give My Husband Fish Sausage" / Dougherty Delano, Page

What Was Home / Silver, Laurie

"Chapter Four You Break Up": A Journal / Nevins, Octavia

Growing Up Middle Aged / Lopez-Mena, Marita

Reflections on April Fool's Day / Raymond, Diane

Talaq, Divorce / Saed, Zohra

No More Romance for Me / O'Sullivan, Sue

From Buddy to Joe to Harriet / Luria, Harriet

So Much for "Happily Ever After" / Woronov, Naomi

Dear Harry: Unsent E-mails to an Ex / Becker, Susan

My Own Dance / Kaplan, Margie

Event Horizon / Stuart, Mary

The Only Life I Have / Stieber Rous, Janice

Observing the Cormorant / Berman, Phyllis

PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON BEING LEFT AND LEAVING

Trashed / Burdick, Carol

Marriage Comes and Goes but Sex Is Forever / Simcock, Anne

Lost Love: The Nature of Romantic Rejection / Fisher, Helen

Leaking Affections: A Socio-psychoanalytic View / Silver, Catherine B.

What's Really Going on Here?: The Therapist's Perspective / Ogus Katz, Marilyn

Divorce Is Economic Suicide / Dailey, Nancy

Single Women at Midlife: The Always, Already Dumped / Berke, Nancy

Snow White and Rose Red Meet Their "Prince" / Giovanni, Isabella / Peacock, Annie

Left Alone: Deserted by Death or Divorce / Froschl, Merle

Splitsville: Break-up Literature / Bauer-Maglin, Nan

Break-up Art / Weinberg, Louise

Unholy Matrimony / Festa, Diana

The Chore / Festa, Diana

About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-62919-4

9786613941640

0-8135-6186-8

OCLC:

813846343