When Professional Women Retire...: Food for Thought and Palate

By Inga Wiehl

When Professional Women Retire: Food for Thought and Palate celebrates women's ways of knowing how to retire into "the good life." Our approach is predicated on the belief that we may transform the outward loss of professional careers and identity to inward gain. Urging a thoughtful assessment of ourselves as retired professional women, we advocate finding a passion leading to tasks that will engage our minds and demand our commitment. We propose ways of living examined lives yet realize that "minding our bellies" is vital to leading a good life. Our favorite recipes, therefore, bring attention to food as a means of individual well-being and social bonding.

The Tool Book offers practical, hands-on information with specific text references and recommended readings, directories of agencies considered especially helpful in posing, answering, or directing inquiries into part-time jobs, volunteer opportunities, continuing education, physical exercise options, and travel destinations. It furthermore shows how the book may be used as a starter text for group explorations, such as seminars, workshops, chautauquas, and focus groups, inviting women to come together to discuss issues, means of mutual support, and community outreach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761831118
• ISBN13: 9780761831112
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

"Sage" Advice for Retirees

I'm nearly of retirement age and I found many reasons to enjoy When Professional Women Retire..... The language and rich vocabulary bring the ideas of this book to life. It is full of creative and practical thoughts about living "the good life" in our retirement years. The final chapter is particularly good reading. The authors' observations about corporate power and the appeal of the latest fads speak to the need for retired women and men to play an important role as keepers of the values that have made our civilization strong. With many in the younger generation focused primarily on money, it's important to hear voices who urge a reevaluation of what we are all about. Wiehl and Heffernan encourage us to strengthen our resolve to give future generations a sense of the importance of literature, history, and philosophy--those values that anchor "the good life." The recipes are an added bonus. I can already recommend the marinated halibut, creamy risotto, and spinach and avocado salad.