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OverviewGray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, as well as some that are unique to elder relationships. These include having had previous partners and a complicated and deep personal history; family and friends’ reactions to an older person’s dating; alternative models to marriage (such as sharing space or living apart); having more than one partner at the same time; one’s aging body, appearance, and sexuality; and the pressure of time and the specter of illness and death. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nan Bauer-Maglin , Daniel E. Hood , Nan Bauer-Maglin , Daniel E. HoodPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9781978827264ISBN 10: 1978827261 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 13 January 2023 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction Prelude Looking at Sixty by Cynthia McVay Part I. To Be or Not To Be In A Relationship: Tales of Humor, Disappointment, Rewards, and Personal Insight 1. Not Jane Eyre’s Story by Susan Ostrov Weisser 2. Discovery through Online Dating Sites: A Woman’s Perspective by Phyllis Carito 3. Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind by Nan Bauer-Maglin 4. Confessions of an Online Dater by Neil Stein 5. Advertisement for Myself by Jonathan Ned Katz 6. What Would I Wear? by Laura Broadwell 7. Something from Everyone by Stephanie M. Brown 8. A (Mostly) Amusing Exercise in Futility by Elizabeth Locke 9. Rick Redux by Candida B. Korman 10. You Say Potato by Amy Rogers 11. Three Dates by Margie Kaplan 12. Dreams and Matches in an Unsure Virtual World by Alice F. Freed 13. In Transition, Not Seeking for Now by Hedva Lewittes 14. “Do You Get It Yet?” by Rett Zabriskie 15. On the Road by Irvin Peckham 16. Dark Clouds and Silver Linings by William Wiesner 17. An Octogenarian’s Adventures in Online Dating by Natasha Josefowitz 18. Coping with COVID-19 by Phyllis Bogen 19. It’s Valentine’s Day. So What! by Erica Manfred 20. What’s Sex Got To Do With It? by Judith Ugelow Blak 21. Gray Love en Noir: African American Women Flying Solo by Choice and by Chance by Linda Wright Moore 22. Passion and Prejudice by Jean Y. Leung Part II. The Complications and Pleasures of Elder Relationships 23. Checking a Different Box by Jan Jacobson 24. Weume by Stephanie Speer and David Levy 25. Begin Again? by Sandi Goldie and Jim Bronson 26. The Wizard of Algo by Vincent Valenti 27. Date, Marry, Repeat by Stacey Parkins Millett 28. Late in the Dating Game: Walked, Homered, Fouled Out by Eugene Roth 29. Matchmaker, Matchmaker! by Isabel Hill 30. A Cozy, Crowded Bed by Nan Bauer-Maglin 31. Our Bench and Other Late Life Wonders by Doris Friedensohn and Paul Lauter 32. Love after Seventy and Eighty by Susan O’Malley 33. Where Is This Going? by Barbara Abercrombie 34. Pleasures and Complications: Living Apart Together by Susan Bickley 35. Parallel Matches by Anonymous 36. Reflections on “Old Love” by Sarah Dunn 37. A Vine of Roses by Mimi Schwartz 38. From Texas to Ohio by Bonnie Fails 39. Till Illness Do Us Part? by Angela Page 40. What Remains Has Just Begun by Tierl Thompson and Idris Walters 41. At Once by Dustin Beall Smith Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsReviewsAn inspiring collection of personal stories from individuals seeking emotional and physical relationships in their later years. Their honest, insightful, and poignant narratives are a worthwhile additionto age studies. --Ellyn Lem author of Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life Cupid's got a lousy sense of humor. We just keep longing for romance and companionship--even in our nineties. Love's a drive--like thirst and hunger. And this book shows the yearning (and resignation) among older folks with touching delicacy and exquisite sophistication. It's a treasure. --Dr. Helen Fisher Chief Science Advisor to Match.com, author of Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray Everything you wanted to know about late-life dating and mating...and then some, from wide-ranging personal accounts. --Susan Gubar author of Late-Life Love: A Memoir These are fresh, new voices that give dignity, pathos, humor and warmth to the search for love, or finding love, in the third or fourth quartile of life. This is a book that people of a certain age should read--but also people who will, I hope, reach a certain age-because they should know that love and passion can exist way beyond reproductive years. --Pepper Schwartz author of 50 Great Myths of Human sexuality, andon air-relationship expert, Married at First Sigh Author InformationNAN BAUER-MAGLINis Professor Emerita at the City University of New York. She has published eight collections (six with coeditors) on topics such as step-families, retirement, feminism, death, dying and choice, and older parenting. Her latest book is Widows’ Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, The First Year, The Long Haul, and Everything In Between. DANIEL E. HOOD is a retired professor of sociology. He taught at several New York Metro area schools for four decades. His latest book is Redemption and Recovery: Parallels of Religion and Science in Addiction Treatment. His memoir essay, “Better Late Than Never,” was recently published in Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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