Age ain't nothing but a number
Subtitle: Black women explore midlife
By: edited by Carleen Brice.
Contributors: Brice, Carleen, 1963-
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors.; African American women -- Literary collections.; Middle-aged women -- Literary collections.; American literature -- Women authors.; Middle-aged women -- United States.; Middle age -- Literary collections.; Aging -- Literary collections.; Middle age -- United States.; Aging -- United States.; African American women.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Forty black women share their views on aging, addressing such issues as relationships, health, spirituality, sex, and beauty.
Table of contents: title: Who says an older woman shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles; title: Age / Nikki Giovanni; title: The affirmation / Patricia Raybon; title: Journal (February 12, 1987) / Alice Walker; title: Unlocking midlife / Jackie Warren-Moore; title: Games / Jackie Warren-Moore; title: What I learned on the way to getting old : don't tell your age and other lessons / Elyse Singleton; title: Midlife blues / Carmen Turner; title: How to fly into fifty (without a fear of flying) / S. Pearl Sharp; title: The ball of a lifetime / Trudier Harris-Lopez; title: In search of meaningful work / Jan Thomas; title: Dreaming of crones / Carleen Brice; title: New bones / Lucille Clifton; title: Choosing longevity / Susan L. Taylor; title: Maneuvering through menopause : a rite of passage / Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter.; title: To my last period / Lucille Clifton; title: Hair matters at midlife / Brenda J. Allen; title: Am I ugly? / Terri Sutton; title: Banyan trunk / Ada Nelribi; title: From I left my back door open / April Sinclair; title: Used / Rita Dove; title: My cups used to runneth over / Diane Donaldson; title: Middle-age UFO / Colleen McElroy; title: From a day late and a dollar short / Terry McMillan; title: Homegirl reunion / Joan Hopewell-Hartgens; title: Letting go with love / Miriam Decosta-Willis; title: From the women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor; title: Babies??!! / Tina McElroy Ansa; title: Adoption : a midlife love story / Sheila Stainback; title: The pathway home / Stephanie Rose Bird; title: The dance of life / Wuanda M. T. Walls; title: Full circling / Elaine Lee; title: In the heat of shadow / Jewelle Gomez; title: Parents, wives, and womanhood : the lessons we never learned / Ta'shia Asanti Karade; title: Age and sexuality / Maya Angelou; title: Trust me / Pearl Cleage; title: Gray pussy hair / Opal Palmer Adisa; title: Safer sex (before and) after fifty / Gale Madyun; title: Plum jelly in hot shiny jars / Akasha Gloria Hull; title: It might as well be spring / Carleen Brice; title: The company she keeps / Colleen McElroy; title: From do-it-yourself rainbows / J. California Cooper.