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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 persp...

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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.
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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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