Today's women in their 50s are better educated, more independent, more economically stable and more involved in public life than women this age have ever been before. They are the first to enter this stage of their lives with a sense of real freedom and opportunity, and a spirit of adventure. Society has traditionally seen them as women who have lost their looks, their purpose and their presence. But these women today, free of their children - and sometimes of their husbands! - are redifining the age of the menopause and stating firmly that a woman's life does not go into decline after 50. This book is designed to provide essential information which women need to make the most of their lives. Both a handbook and a starting point for more discussion, it draws on medical and scientific data, social theories and studies of mid-adulthoood and its effects on women.
- ISBN10 0002552361
- ISBN13 9780002552363
- Publish Date 9 April 1996 (first published 1 February 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk