Research Catalog

Title

Women in midlife / edited by Grace Baruch and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baruch, Grace K.
• Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne

Description

xii, 404 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Women in context

Uniform Title

Women in context

Alternative Title

Women in mid-life.

Subject

• Middle-aged women > United States
• Middle-aged women
• Middle-aged women > Psychology
• Sex role
• Middle-aged women > Mental health
• Middle Aged > psychology
• Women > psychology
• Gender Role
• sex role
• Middle-aged women
• Middle-aged women > Mental health
• Middle-aged women > Psychology
• Sex role
• Frau
• Mittleres Lebensalter
• Psychiatrie
• Psychologie
• Ältere Frau
• Sex role > United States
• Women > Psychology
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction: The study of women in midlife / Grace K. Baruch and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Part I. Conceptual approaches to midlife -- Life events and the boundaries of midlife for women / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Barbara Kirsh -- Methods for a life-span developmental approach to women in the middle years / Margie E. Lachman -- Middle-aged women in literature / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Part II. Roles and relationships -- The middle years : changes and variations in social role commitments / Helena Z. Lopata and Debra Barnewolt -- Multiple roles of midlife women : a case for new directions in theory, research, and policy / Judy Long and Karen L. Porter -- The psychological well-being of women in the middle years / Grace K. Baruch -- Social change and equality : the roles of women and economics / Diane E. Alington and Lillian E. Troll -- The daughter of aging parents / Ann Stueve and Lydia O'Donnell -- Motherhood in the middle years : women and their adult children / Vivian Wood, Jane Traupmann, Julia Hay -- Black women in the middle years / Jeanne Spurlock -- Problems of American middle-class women in their middle years : a comparative approach / Beatrice Blyth Whiting -- Part III. Enhancing well-being -- Health care and midlife women / Catherine DeLorey -- Reproductive issues, including menopause / Mary Brown Parlee -- The midlife woman as student / Nancy K. Schlossberg -- The anxiety of the unknown -- choice, risk, responsibility : therapeutic issues for today's adult women / Rosalind C. Barnett -- Reflections and perspectives on therapeutic issues for today's adult women / Malkah T. Notman -- Sexuality and the middle-aged woman / Zella Luria and Robert G. Meade.

ISBN

• 0306414449
• 9780306414442

LCCN

84003374

OCLC

• ocm10430682
• 10430682
• SCSB-605947

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library