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Learn moreA seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of life.
In her most groundbreaking work since Passages and The Silent Passage, bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural phenomenonāincreased vitality in womenās sex and love lives after fifty. Sex and the Seasoned Woman is the story of an intimate revolution taking place under our very noses.
Boomer generation women in midlife are open to sex, love, dating, new dreams, exploring spirituality, and revitalizing their marriages as never before. This is a new universe of passionate, liberated womenāmarried and singleāwho are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle age and are now realizing they donāt have to. As life spans grow longer and as societal constraints continue to loosen, older womenāonce free of the exhausting demands of young children, needy husbands, and demanding careersāfind themselves ready to pursue the passionate life. They embrace their āsecond adulthoodā as a period of reawakening.
Written in Sheehyās singularly compelling style, combining interviews and research, this book gives voice to more than a hundred fascinating and colorful women. The inspiring stories tell of wives who reinvigorate their marriages after their children leave the nest as well as divorced, widowed, and long-single women who find new dreams and new loves. Sheehy delineates a crucial link between cultivating a new dream and reopening the pathway to intimacy and sexual pleasure. She also examines the latest medical breakthroughs addressing symptoms that have unnecessarily curtailed womenās sex lives.
From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover, to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger, to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.
Bestselling author and cultural observer Gail Sheehy made history with the publication of Passages, which was an international bestseller, appearing in 28 languages. She followed up with The Silent Passage, New Passages, and Understanding Menās Passages. Sheehy is also the author of Hillaryās Choice, a biography of Hillary Clinton, and Middletown, America, about a New Jersey town devastated by the World Trade Center attack. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, Sheehy is the recipient of the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America.Ā
Kate ReadingĀ is the recipient of threeĀ AudioFileĀ Earphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot.Ā Her favorite BOT recordings includeĀ Like Water for Chocolate,Ā Middlemarch, and Robert Jordanās Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.
Bestselling author and cultural observer Gail Sheehy made history with the publication of Passages, which was an international bestseller, appearing in 28 languages. She followed up with The Silent Passage, New Passages, and Understanding Menās Passages. Sheehy is also the author of Hillaryās Choice, a biography of Hillary Clinton, and Middletown, America, about a New Jersey town devastated by the World Trade Center attack. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, Sheehy is the recipient of the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America.Ā
Kate ReadingĀ is the recipient of threeĀ AudioFileĀ Earphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot.Ā Her favorite BOT recordings includeĀ Like Water for Chocolate,Ā Middlemarch, and Robert Jordanās Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.