Secret Paths
- Authors
- Apter, Terri
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton Company
- Tags
- sociology , reference
- Date
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.47 MB
- Lang
- en
In this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with women in their forties and fifties. Apter finds that women experience a renewed sense of themselves and see the second half of life as an opportunity for psychological growth and fulfillment instead of a time of despair over lost youth and beauty.
She divides midlife women into four categories--traditional, innovative, expansive, protesting--and shows the cause for the midlife crisis and the path toward resolution for each type.