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| Note from the Author | |
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| First Adulthood | |
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| Prologue: Oh, Pioneers! | |
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| Updating the Passages Concept | |
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| What to Do With This Leftover Life? | |
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| The Discovery Process | |
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| New Cross-Cultural Evidence | |
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| Whatever Happened to the Life Cycle? | |
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| Mapping Lives Across Time | |
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| Which Generation Are You Traveling With? | |
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| World War II Generation | |
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| Silent Generation | |
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| Vietnam Generation | |
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| Me Generation | |
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| Endangered Generation | |
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| Welcome to Provisional Adulthood | |
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| The Good News | |
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| The Flourishing Forties | |
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| The Vietnam Generation Hits Middlescence | |
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| Who Me, an Adult? | |
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| Out of Control | |
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| Men Redefining Success | |
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| Rise of the Nonworking Class | |
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| The Double Squeeze | |
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| The Pharmaceuticals Salesman, Age 48 | |
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| The Auto Worker, Age 46 | |
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| A Black Man's Bonus Time, Age 40 | |
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| A Wunderkind's Handicap, Age 40 | |
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| The Wunderkind Growing Up, Age 47 | |
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| The New Midlife Man | |
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| Out-of-Sight Women | |
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| A Woman in Early Midlife Crisis | |
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| Catch-40 for Couples | |
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| Beyond "Me"--to Another Level of Being | |
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| The Fantasy of Fertility Forever | |
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| Late Babymania | |
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| The Great Postponers | |
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| The Psychic Fallout | |
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| What Do You Mean, My Eggs Are Too Old? | |
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| But Susan Sarandon Did It | |
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| The Facts on Infertility | |
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| So Glad I Didn't Wait | |
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| The Race | |
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| Perpetual Middlescence | |
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| Holding the Edge | |
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| A Woman Addicted to Success, Age 52 | |
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| Frozen in Time | |
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| Single Men: What Are You Doing from Five to Nine? | |
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| Single Women: Tales from the Naked City | |
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| Second Adulthood | |
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| Prologue: A Brand-New Passage | |
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| Decline or Progress? | |
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| From Survival to Mastery | |
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| The "Little Death" of First Adulthood | |
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| Birth of Second Adulthood | |
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| The Meaning Crisis | |
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| Time to Kill? | |
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| Push Toward Authenticity | |
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| Aliveness or Stagnation? | |
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| The Time Flies Test | |
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| Safety or Danger? | |
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| Passage to the Age of Mastery | |
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| The Mortality Crisis | |
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| Living on the Edge | |
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| Little Victories | |
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| Composing Your Own Progress Narrative | |
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| Peggy's Progress | |
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| Guides and Teachings | |
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| Flaming Fifties: Women | |
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| Women: Pits to Peak | |
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| First, the Terror | |
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| The Vanity Crisis | |
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| The New Female Pacesetters | |
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| Working-Class Women: Finding Faith in Yourself | |
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| Surprise! You're Not Getting Older, You're Getting Happier! | |
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| Women's Historical Progress Across Time | |
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| A Survivor Who Found Passion at 50 | |
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| Wonder Women Meets Menopause | |
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| "I'm Out of Estrogen, and I've Got a Gun" | |
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| Phase One: The Perimenopause Panic | |
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| Phase Two: Over the Hump | |
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| Should I Take Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)? | |
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| The Breast Cancer Phobia | |
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| The Weight Gain Fallacy | |
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| Phase Three: Postmenopause | |
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| Call of the Wild Girl | |
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| From Pleasing to Mastery | |
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| On the Privilege of Being 50 | |
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| Moving Toward Mastery | |
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| Finding One's Own Voice | |
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| From Anger to Forgiveness | |
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| Flaming Fifties: Men | |
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| The Samson Complex | |
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| The Male Vanity Crisis | |
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| The Aging Athlete, Age 57 | |
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| The Excessed VP, Age 47 | |
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| The Sociable Athlete, Age 59 | |
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| Macho Men Holding the Line | |
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| But My Body is Bulletproof! | |
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| Fall Guys of the Economic Revolution | |
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| Corporate Refugees | |
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| The Lifer, Age 53 | |
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| The Meant-to-be-President, Age 55 | |
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| Psychic Consequences | |
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| Angry and Anxious White Males | |
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| The New (Hostile) Dependence on Wives | |
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| Reality Testing for the Future | |
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| The Rehabilitation of the Corporate Refugee | |
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| The Company Man as Free Agent, Age 48 | |
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| The Optimism Surge | |
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| From Competing to Connecting | |
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| Men's Anguish Over Empty Nest | |
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| Father, I Hardly Knew Ye | |
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| Reinventing Fatherhood | |
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| The Start-Over Dad, Age 59 | |
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| The Medlator, Age 48 | |
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| The Unspeakable Passage: Male Menopause | |
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| I'd Rather Have a Talking Frog | |
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| The Problem Without a Proper Name | |
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| Hard Statistics and Hopeful Science | |
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| Sex, Lies, and Scorekeeping | |
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| Am I Just Getting Old? | |
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| The Mind-Body Link | |
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| High-Tech Solutions | |
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| High-Technique Solution | |
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| How to Restore Vitality and Virility | |
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| Beyond Male Menopause | |
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| Men and Women: The New Geometry of the Sexual Diamond | |
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| A Point of Harmony | |
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| Brain-Sex Changes | |
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| Take Back Your Diamond! | |
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| The Crossover Crisis | |
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| Secrets of Serene Potency | |
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| Bust-to-Boom Banker, Early Fifties | |
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| New-Age Electrician, Age 52 | |
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| The Save-Your-Life Wife | |
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| The Divorce Springboard | |
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| Victoria's Real Secret--Sexual Power Surges | |
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| Finding Your Passion Without a Man | |
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| Passage to the Age of Integrity | |
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| The Serene Sixties | |
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| Ready for Prime Time | |
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| Growing Brain | |
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| The Hunger for Harmony | |
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| Special Powers of the Sixties | |
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| Permission to Play | |
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| The Designer Who Learned to Play at 63 | |
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| Self-Confident Survivors | |
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| The Wiley Widow, Age 60 | |
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| Love Stories of the Sixties | |
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| Rekindling Old Flames, Age 77 | |
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| Reconciliations | |
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| Men: Make My Passage | |
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| Grand Dads | |
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| Retirement: Love it or Leave It? | |
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| The Bush Retirement (Non)Plan | |
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| The Carters' Retirement Plan | |
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| The Winner's Circle | |
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| Mr. Hat, the Company Man | |
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| Late-Age Entrepreneur | |
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| Sources of Well-Being in the Sixties | |
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| How Much is Enough? | |
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| Old Elephants' Club, Age 65 | |
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| Comebacks from Hopelessness | |
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| The Cancer Survivor | |
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| Wisewomen in Training | |
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| Dreamer Beyond Dreams | |
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| The Wit Network | |
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| A Wisewoman Model, Age 60 | |
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| Survivor Sex and Extrasexual Passions | |
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| Congratulations, You're a New Grandmother! | |
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| The New Fly-In Grandmother, Age 56 | |
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| Nurturing: The Second Wave | |
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| Life and Love Beyond Loss | |
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| Caretakers of the World | |
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| Master of Divinity at 63 | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Expanding the Wit Network | |
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| Two Species of Aging | |
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| Choosing How to Age | |
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| Renaissance in the Art of Health | |
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| Sharpening up for the Sage Seventies and Beyond | |
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| Celebratory Centenarians | |
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| The Present Never Ages | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Life History Survey | |
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| Professional Women's and Men's Surveys | |
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| Family Circle Survey | |
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| New Woman Survey | |
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| Suggested Readings on Menopause | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |