Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide

Book Overview

Women Confronting Retirement showcases the voices of thirty-eight women from a wide range of professions, ages, and life situations as they confront the need to redefine who they are when they leave the workplace behind them. The women of the Baby Boom generation were the first to enter the professional world in large numbers, and the first to encounter the hazards of retirement. The contributors urge us to reach for new approaches to this major stage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531268
• ISBN13: 9780813531267
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Exciting Transitions

I found this book very interesting. Since these women have led active professional lives, often politically active as well, their stories are really compelling. They face the issue of retirement, and its problems, with so much honesty that I was genuinely riveted by their experience. Some of them have decided to go on leading rich and exciting lives in retirement, while others have chosen to enjoy their freedom by luxuriating in relaxation. Almost all of them give absorbing accounts of their experience, and those few who don't, you can skip.

New ways to look at retirement....

I enjoyed it tremendously. It gives me the sense that one'solder years are likely to be very fluid, not fixed at all, with doors opening and closing. There were certainly familiar themes, but new ones, too. This is a very thought-provoking book that would make a wonderful gift for an older woman friend or relative.