About the author; Title page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Ageing or Old?; 2 The Life and Death Forces: Eros and Thanatos; 3 Rite of Passage; Separation and Mourning; Women and the Loss of Youth; Men and the Loss of Youth; Fifty or Fifteen?; 4 Marriage, the Empty Nest and the True Self; 5 Androgyny in the Fifties; 6 The Grandparenting Phase: Renewal or Decay?; 7 Work and the Fifties; Doing rather than Being; 8 Betwixt and Between: Liminality and Initiation; Mythology as a Guide to the Rite of Passage; Death and Liminality; 9 The Return: the Late Fifties; Index.
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Understanding the experiences of being fiftysomething.