Inventing the Rest of Our Lives ─ Women in Second Adulthood

The first editor of Ms. magazine helps women address the three crucial questions of second adulthood: What matters? What works? WhatA's next?

New brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37 million women now entering their fifties and sixtiesA-a unique generationA-are refashioning their lives, with dramatic results. They have fulfilled all the prescribed rolesA- daughter, wife, mother, employee, but theyA're not ready to retire. They want to experience more. Suzanne Braun Levine gives us a fun, smart, and tremendously informative road map through the challenging and uncharted territory that lies ahead.

A"Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life.A" A-Gloria Steinem
A"I found so many resonances with my own experiences in this bookA. It will have a huge impact and will clarify so many things for so many women.A"A-Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., author of In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure
A"Suzanne Braun Levine made me understand why I always envied older women . . . life just gets betterA-more outrageous, more radical, more passionate, less fraught, wiser, deeper, and kinder.A" A-Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues
A"A you-go-girl manual for the menopause crowd.A"A-People