Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over Sixty
An inspiring look into the lives of older women. Based on research and extensive interviews, Still Doing It explores the lives of daring, outspoken, and sensual women of an older generation who actively embrace new romantic relationships and sexual experiences. Here is a beacon for women of all ages—partnered, single, straight, gay, black, or white—who look forward to reinventing themselves, enjoying their bodies, and taking risks at all stages in life. As women continue to live longer,...
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Based on the critically acclaimed documentary by the same name, Still Doing it is a must for women of all ages-partnered, single, straight, gay-who look forward to reinventing themselves, enjoying their bodies, and taking risks at all stages in life.Featuring candid interviews and revealing profiles, Still Doing it marks a sea change in how we view the intimate lives of women over the age of sixty. These women are dynamic, confident, opinionated, and wise. They're also having the kind of intense sexual experiences and fantasies we never associate with grandmothers. You'll meet Betty, who met her live-in boyfriend in an online chat room when she was sixty-nine and he was twenty-two; Joani, age seventy, who shares her boyfriend with another woman; and Frances, who encountered the intellectual and sexual love of her life at eighty.Flying in the face of ageism, Still Doing It lets everyone know that sex and adventure do not need to end when you hit sixty (or seventy... or ninety!). In fact, the good stuff is often just beginning.
Introduction by Deirdre Fishel xiIntroduction by Diana Holtzberg xv1 Hitting Sixty with a Boom: The New Old Age 12 Going Strong: Romance Throughout Life 233 The Partner Gap 494 Older and Wilder: Nontraditional Relationships 675 Taking Your Sweet Time: Sex as We Age 856 Party of One: Solo Sensuality 1037 Bodies Built to Last: Our Bodies Over Time 1198 Dealing with Loss: The Journey Continues 1399 Aging, the Great Adventure 159Notes 179Index 181
