Age ain't nothing but a number : Black women explore midlife
Forty black women share their views on aging, addressing such issues as relationships, health, spirituality, sex, and beauty.
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | Forty black women share their views on aging, addressing such issues as relationships, health, spirituality, sex, and beauty. |
Physical Description: | xiii, 233 pages ; 22 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233). |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2003]
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ISBN: | 0807028231 9780807028230 |
Table of Contents:
- Who says an older woman shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles
- Age / Nikki Giovanni
- The affirmation / Patricia Raybon
- Journal (February 12, 1987) / Alice Walker
- Unlocking midlife / Jackie Warren-Moore
- Games / Jackie Warren-Moore
- What I learned on the way to getting old : don't tell your age and other lessons / Elyse Singleton
- Midlife blues / Carmen Turner
- How to fly into fifty (without a fear of flying) / S. Pearl Sharp
- The ball of a lifetime / Trudier Harris-Lopez
- In search of meaningful work / Jan Thomas
- Dreaming of crones / Carleen Brice
- New bones / Lucille Clifton
- Choosing longevity / Susan L. Taylor
- Maneuvering through menopause : a rite of passage / Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter
- To my last period / Lucille Clifton
- Hair matters at midlife / Brenda J. Allen
- Am I ugly? / Terri Sutton
- Banyan trunk / Ada Nelribi
- From I left my back door open / April Sinclair
- Used / Rita Dove
- My cups used to runneth over / Diane Donaldson
- Middle-age UFO / Colleen McElroy
- From a day late and a dollar short / Terry McMillan
- Homegirl reunion / Joan Hopewell-Hartgens
- Letting go with love / Miriam Decosta-Willis
- From the women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
- Babies??!! / Tina McElroy Ansa
- Adoption : a midlife love story / Sheila Stainback
- The pathway home / Stephanie Rose Bird
- The dance of life / Wuanda M.T. Walls
- Full circling / Elaine Lee
- In the heat of shadow / Jewelle Gomez
- Parents, wives, and womanhood : the lessons we never learned / Ta'shia Asanti Karade
- Age and sexuality / Maya Angelou
- $ Trust me / Pearl Cleage
- Gray pussy hair / Opal Palmer Adisa
- Safer sex (before and) after fifty / Gale Madyun
- Plum jelly in hot shiny jars / Akasha Gloria Hull
- It might as well be spring / Carleen Brice
- The company she keeps / Colleen McElroy
- From do-it-yourself rainbows / J. California Cooper.