The bitch is back : older, wiser, and (getting) happier
Summary
"More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back--along with sixteen captivating new voices--sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser persp... Full description
- 1.
- Me, myself, and my midlife choices: my way or the highway
- Five crucial things the fifty-three-year-old bitch knows that the thirty-nine-year-old bitch didn't (yet) /
- Pam Houston
- Vagina. Notwithstanding /
- Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Gone girl: what I (don't) owe my mother /
- Anna March
- Wrinkles in time. Or not. /
- Debora L. Spar
- What's love got to do with it?: I'm havin' my baby /
- Lizzie Skurnick
- The "other woman" then and now /
- Kerry Herlihy
- Dirty work /
- Kathy Thomas, as told to Cathi Hanauer
- 2.
- Sex, lies, and happy(ish) endings: because this ain't Disney, dolls. It's life
- The coming of age: sex 102 /
- Sarah Crichton
- Still in the heart /
- Hazel McClay
- My filthy little heart: Love it? Or lose it? /
- Claire Johnson
- Once a week: take it or leave it /
- Grace O'Malley
- Fifty shades of free /
- Robin Rinaldi
- My war with sex /
- Lynn Darling
- 3.
- To Hell, and to hold
- Her life. My life: two women, two worlds /
- Erin White
- Jason, me, and Jesus: the other guy in our relationship /
- Veronica Chambers
- Trading places: we both wanted to stay home. He won. But so did I. /
- Julianna Baggett
- Beyond the myth of co-parenting: what we lost
- and gained
- by abandoning equality /
- Hope Edelman
- Now there were two /
- Jill Bialosky
- Living alone: a fantasy /
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- 4.
- Starting over
- Second time around: letting go of convention (and listening to my mother) /
- Kate Christensen
- What was in it for ME: saying yes, saying no, leaning in, leaning out /
- Rabia Hussein
- Stepping off the scale /
- Ann Hood
- Getting it right the third time. Or wrong. You tell me. /
- Karen Karbo
- Yes /
- Susanna Sonnenberg
- A new life under the ladder /
- Cynthia Kling.