Cut loose : (mostly) older women talk about the end of (mostly) long-term relationships /

Cut loose : (mostly) older women talk about the end of (mostly) long-term relationships /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
Description:	xi, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Separation (Psychology) -- Case studies. Man-woman relationships -- Case studies. Women -- Psychology -- Case studies. Middle-aged women -- Psychology -- Case studies. Man-woman relationships. Middle aged women -- Psychology. Separation (Psychology) Women -- Psychology. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6092272

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Other authors / contributors:	Maglin, Nan Bauer.
ISBN:	0813538467 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813538475 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813538464 9780813538471
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Part 1. He/She Left Her/Him
"If Not" and "I Give My Husband Fish Sausage"
What Was Home
"Chapter Four You Break Up": A Journal
Growing Up Middle Aged
Reflections on April Fool's Day
Talaq, Divorce
No More Romance for Me
From Buddy to Joe to Harriet
So Much for "Happily Ever After"
Dear Harry: Unsent E-mails to an Ex
My Own Dance
Event Horizon
The Only Life I Have
"Observing the Cormorant"
Part 2. Perspectives on Being Left and Leaving
"Trashed"
Marriage Comes and Goes but Sex Is Forever
Lost Love: The Nature of Romantic Rejection
Leaking Affections: A Socio-psychoanalytic View
What's Really Going on Here?: The Therapist's Perspective
Divorce Is Economic Suicide
Single Women at Midlife: The Always, Already Dumped
Snow White and Rose Red Meet Their "Prince"
Left Alone: Deserted by Death or Divorce
Splitsville: Break-up Literature
Break-up Art
"Unholy Matrimony" and "The Chore"
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