Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

by Terri Apter

Overview

"The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book Review

In this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with women in their forties and fifties. Apter finds that women experience a renewed sense of themselves and see the second half of life as an opportunity for psychological growth and fulfillment instead of a time of despair over lost youth and beauty.

She divides midlife women into four categories--traditional, innovative, expansive, protesting--and shows the cause for the midlife crisis and the path toward resolution for each type.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393315004
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/17/1997
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Terri Apter is a writer, psychologist, and retired Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her ten books include The Sister Knot, Difficult Mothers, and What Do You Want from Me? She lives in Cambridge, England.

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Carol Gilligan

An extremely important book. . . . Her writing offers perceptions rare in psychology.

Editorial Reviews

"An extremely important book. . . . Her writing offers perceptions rare in psychology."

Carol Gilligan