Bibliograph

Passages, predictable crises of adult life, Gail Sheehy

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Passages, predictable crises of adult life, Gail Sheehy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-535) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Passages

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

63171260

Responsibility statement

Gail Sheehy

Sub title

predictable crises of adult life

Summary

Describes predictable personality and sexual changes adults go through in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Part 1: Mysteries of the Life Cycle. Madness and Method -- Predictable Crises of Adulthood -- Part 2: Pulling Up Roots. Breast to Breakaway -- Playing It to the Bust -- "If I'm Late, Start the Crisis Without Me" -- The Urge to Merge -- Beginnings of the Couple Puzzle -- Part 3: The Trying Twenties. Getting off to a Running Start -- The One True Couple -- Why Do Men Marry? -- Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man and a Man Less Like a Racehorse? -- Sneak Preview: Men and Women Growing Up -- Part 4: Passage to the Thirties. Catch-30 -- The Couple Knot, the Single Spot, the Rebound -- Part 5: But I'm Unique. Men's Life Patterns -- Women's Life Patterns -- Part 6: Deadline Decade. Setting off on the Midlife Passage -- You Are in Good Company -- The Age 35 Survey -- The Age 40 Crucible -- Switch-40s and the Couple -- The Sexual Diamond -- Living out the Fantasy -- Living out the Reality -- Part 7: Renewal. Renewal -- Afterword

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