Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

By Terri Apter

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393315002
• ISBN13: 9780393315004
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Succint and accurate based on real life experience

This book gives a great overview of how women who have chosen different life paths approach and deal with midlife. I found it a very accurate reflection of my own experience and that of friends with different life experiences to date. Instead of treating midlife as a "crisis", this book helps you redefine it as the opportunity it presents.