The seasons of a woman's life / Daniel J. Levinson in collaboration with Judy D. Levinson

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, c1996Description: xiv, 438 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 345311744
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF 724.5 .L48 1996
Contents:
Part 1. View of adult development and a view of gender -- Part 2. The homemaker sample -- Part 3. The career women samples, The businesswomen and the faculty members -- Part 4. Conclusion.
Summary: Based on ... interviews with diverse group of forty-five women, [this book] completes and substantiates Levinson's thesis: that all human beings go right on developing throughout their lives in a pattern of amazing inevitability. : businesswomen, academics, and homemakers, completes and substantiates [the author's] thesis: that all human beings, of whatever sex or culture, go right on developing throughout their lives, in a pattern of amazing predictability ... Every woman will recognize and find comfort in recognizing the deep shape of her own life in the pattern it outlines, from the early adult transition (ages 17 to 22) to the mid-life transition (ages 40 to 45) and beyond.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. View of adult development and a view of gender -- Part 2. The homemaker sample -- Part 3. The career women samples, The businesswomen and the faculty members -- Part 4. Conclusion.

Based on ... interviews with diverse group of forty-five women, [this book] completes and substantiates Levinson's thesis: that all human beings go right on developing throughout their lives in a pattern of amazing inevitability. : businesswomen, academics, and homemakers, completes and substantiates [the author's] thesis: that all human beings, of whatever sex or culture, go right on developing throughout their lives, in a pattern of amazing predictability ... Every woman will recognize and find comfort in recognizing the deep shape of her own life in the pattern it outlines, from the early adult transition (ages 17 to 22) to the mid-life transition (ages 40 to 45) and beyond.

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