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Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

William Morrowan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxix, 332 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women--United States--Social conditions--Case studies.
Interpersonal relations--United States--Case studies.
Women--United States--Social conditions--Case studies.
Interpersonal relations--United States--Case studies.
Essays.

Other Authors:

Hanauer, Cathi, editor.

Contents:

4. New life under the ladder / Five crucial things the fifty-three-year-old bitch knows that the thirty-nine-year-old bitch didn't (yet) / Cynthia Kling. 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 -- "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 -- 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 -- New life under the ladder / Cynthia Kling.

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 backalong 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 womens lives today."--Jacket flap.

ISBN:

0062389513
9780062389510

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)