Red Hot Mamas

by Colette Dowling (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $23.17

  Today's women in their 50s are better educated, more independent, more economically stable and more involved in public life than women this age have ever been before. They are the first to enter this stage of their lives with a sense of real freedom and opportunity, and a spirit of adventure. Society has traditionally seen them as women who have lost their looks, their purpose and their presence. But these women today, free of their children - and sometimes of their husbands! - are redifining the age of the menopause and stating firmly that a woman's life does not go into decline after 50. This book is designed to provide essential information which women need to make the most of their lives. Both a handbook and a starting point for more discussion, it draws on medical and scientific data, social theories and studies of mid-adulthoood and its effects on women.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.53

  Red Hot Mamas is the name Colette Dowling has given to women who are discovering freedom and vitality at midlife. Defying the stereotype of the woman who is on the shelf at 50 they are reinventing themselves: redefining family responsibilities, changing jobs and careers, discovering new approaches to menopause and remaking their important relationships. Drawing on interviews with women and her own personal experience, Dowling pinpoints the dilemmas women must solve if they are to keep moving forward. It gives the readers information and examples to help them make life-changing decisions, whether it be about hormone replacement, the risks of career change, strategies for midlife sexual satisfaction, the politics of appearance, money issues, the lure of a new marriage, or family pressures created by ageing parents and departing children.