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The bitch is back older, wiser, and (getting) happier

"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 back--along with sixteen captivating new voices--sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser...

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Other Authors: Hanauer, Cathi (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Women > United States > Social conditions > Case studies.
Man-woman relationships > United States > Case studies.
Women > United States > Attitudes > Case studies.
Women > Sexual behavior > United States > Case studies.
Interpersonal relations > United States > Case studies.
American essays > Women authors.
Women authors, American > Literary collections.
Aging > Literary collections.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • Me, myself, and my midlife choices: my way or the highway
  • Five crucial things the fifty-three-year-old bitch knows that the thirty-nine-year-old bitch didn't (yet) /
  • Pam Houston
  • 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
  • The "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
  • The 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
  • A new life under the ladder /
  • Cynthia Kling.

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