No More Frogs, No More Princes: Women Making Creative Choices in Midlife [Paperback]

Joanne F. Vickers (Author), Barbara L. Thomas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1993

The authors interviewed over 100 women across the U.S. to collect these narratives--20 compelling autobiographical stories of typical American women between the ages of 40 and 60 who woke up to the possibilities of midlife creativity and met life head on.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This collection of autobiographical tidbits easily meets its goal of presenting different voices of women between the ages of 40 and 60 who have had what the authors call a "midlife reckoning experience," but additional background information could have made the material more cohesive. These stories were culled from interviews conducted by Vickers (a professor of English and women's studies at Ohio Dominican College) and Thomas (a family and child therapist). Many of these narratives are poignant: a 45-year-old without a high school diploma has just left her abusive husband; a graduate student in preventive medicine shows how her father's belief that "Good Italian girls didn't make decisions" kept her from maturing; a labor lawyer describes working in a San Francisco sweatshop as an 11-year-old and admits that "my association with being a girl and a child is with being a slave." There are joyous affirmations too. A 57-year-old has realized her dream of owning an inn in southern Ohio before dying of cancer; a potter is exploring the Cherokee heritage that she was barred from as a child; a 60-year-old recalls her transformation from housewife to local politician to teacher and art consultant.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Crossing Pr (October 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895946254
• ISBN-13: 978-0895946256
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,915,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)