Flying Solo Single Women in Midlife

Name: Flying Solo Single Women in Midlife
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ISBN: 9780393313475

ISBN-10: 0393313476

ISBN-13: 9780393313475

Edition: N/A

Authors: Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart, Sona Dimidjian

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List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Carol M. Anderson is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Susan Stewart is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Taking Off: The Dilemma of Automatic Pilot and Excess Baggage



The Unexpected Joys of Flying Solo



"Fish Got to Swim and Birds Got to Fly"



The Marriage and Motherhood Mandate



The Mandate Goes Underground



Journeys without a Map



Giving Up the Dream



No More Waiting for the Prince: Tales of the Never Married



Broken Dreams: Women Pushed into Lives on Their Own



Leaving Normal: Women Who Have Chosen to Leave Their Marriages



Midlife: Charting a New Course



Midlife's Gifts to Single Women



Accidental Careers: Circuitous Paths, Recovered Dreams, and Midcourse Corrections



Turbulence and Tailwinds: The Challenges of Flying Solo at Work



A Good Ground Crew: Intimacy, Friendship, and Community in the Lives of Single Women



The Problem of Men



Men: The Icing, Not the Cake



Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Encapsulated Intimacies



The Question of Children



Defying the Mandate: Living without Motherhood



Courageous Choices: Single Mothers by Choice



Flying Not Quite Solo



Challenges and Triumphs of Flying Solo



Grit and the Art of Airplane Maintenance: Managing the Mechanics of Flying Solo



One at a Table for Two: The Personal Challenges of Flying Solo



Flying on the Wings of Change


Notes


Index