Download or read book Prime Time written by Marilyn Hughes Gaston and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 2003 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today seven million African American women are living in their prime, experiencing the joys and challenges of middle age. Now, at last, here is the book that addresses ourtotalhealth needs—physical, emotional, and spiritual. Written by a distinguished physician and a clinical psychologist,Prime Timeis the first complete guide that empowers us to take charge of our lives and attain the well-being we deserve. In many ways, it’s true that we are better off today than our foremothers were: We earn more money, command more respect. Yet in spite of these advances, we still experience more chronic health problems, endure more stress, and live shorter lives than women of other races. That’s whyPrime Timeis both urgent and essential. This groundbreaking book not only lays out a detailed, practical plan for overall healing and for maintaining wellness, it also addresses the underlying attitudes and assumptions that lead so many of us to neglect ourselves and undermine our own health.Prime Timewill help you • Reframe priorities to put yourself and your own health needs first • Interpret the latest medical findings on the Big Four killers and how they affect black women in middle age • Profile your current health with worksheets, quizzes, and assessment tools • Renew sex at midlife by eliminating restricting myths and taboos and finding new paths to pleasure • Reduce anger and “attitude” that block you from attaining good health • Identify the nontraditional signs of depression and anxiety common to African American women Comprehensive, straight-talking, and grounded in science and spiritual truth,Prime Timeis at once a guide to total health in middle age and a celebration of the strength, wisdom, and beauty of African American women in their second half of life.
Download or read book African american Women at Midlife written by Yvonne Combs-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this respect the study is designed to examine the health beliefs and behaviors of black women as socially constructed within the context of family through intergenerational learning and a culturally bound collective memory. Second, this study seeks to establish within-group patterns of normalcy, especially those that redefine midlife and aging within the context of the life course experiences of these black women. This research project is structured around four guiding questions.
Download or read book Age Ain t Nothing but a Number written by Carleen Brice and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a collection that celebrates, considers, contemplates, even criticizes'midlife' from a black woman's point of view. Age Ain't Nothing but a Number ranges over every aspect of black women's lives: personal growth, family and friendship, love and sexuality, health, beauty, illness, spirituality, creativity, financial independence, work, and scores of other topics. Midlife today isn't your grandmother's'change of life.' Today, black women call hot flashes 'power surges,' and menopause, the 'pause that refreshes.' These days, middle-aged women may be newlyweds or new mothers, as well as grandmothers or widows. They may experience the empty-nest syndrome and then the 'return-to-the-nest syndrome' as adult children move back home. They may navigate the field of Internet dating, travel the world, teach homeless women, take up pottery, or study international business. This anthology captures all of these aspects of midlife as experienced by some of the finest voices in African-American writing today. Featuring the work of Maya Angelou, J. California Cooper, Pearl Cleage, Nikki Giovanni, Susan L. Taylor, Alice Walker, and dozens of others, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number will make readers think, laugh, and cry and will be the perfect gift book for spring.
Download or read book Women at Midlife written by Ski Hunter and published by N A S W Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of women at midlife served by the helping professions is substantial. Thorough and insightful, this book fills the gap in knowledge about these women and examines critical issues concerning family, caregiving, work, physical health, emotional and mental health, and more. Dispelling restrictive and outdated myths, the authors probe the meaning and direction of women at midlife. This scholarly volume, highlighted by compelling vignettes and backed by extraordinary research, explores the full range of midlife experiences, from how to define midlife to individual development to relationships with other family members. Social work instructors, students, and practitioners, as well as women who themselves are at midlife, will find that the work offers important professional and personal benefits.
Download or read book Reference Groups and Subjective Well being of African American Women at Midlife written by Stephanie Michael Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midlife African American Women s Perceptions of Menopause written by Elisha J. Nixon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Women at Midlife written by Saundra Hardin Starks and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depression among African American Midlife Women written by Heather Page and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midlife African American Women s Attitudes Toward Menopause and the Relationship Between Attitudes and Menopausal Symptom Reporting written by Shirley B. Huffman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tomorrow Begins Today written by Cheryl D. Woodruff and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of African American women and their journey through life. Based on inspiring real life experiences gleaned from insightful focus groups and national research. This book peels back the layers of black women's perceptions, attitudes, and hidden concerns about middle life, and it reveals how to make the later years more satisfying and remarkable.
Download or read book Personal Characteristics Chronic Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Midlife African American Women written by Margaret Ann Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has demonstrated the relationship between chronic stress and depressive symptoms and supported the influence of personal characteristics on chronic stress and depressive symptoms. However, few studies have examined these relationships in specific minority populations. This study used Vitaliano's model of chronic stress to guide a secondary analysis of these relationships in a convenience sample of 206 midlife (39-65 years) African-American women from a southern rural community. Data were obtained from a larger study of perimenopausal southern rural African-American women. The results showed that although the women reported relatively low levels of chronic stress and depressive symptoms, associations with certain personal vulnerabilities and personal and social resources emerged. Key findings were that women who rated their health as better than others reported greater stress (F=4.097; p=.018), and greater knowledge of menopausal symptoms and greater social support were correlated with greater chronic stress (r=.18, p
Download or read book Signs of Menopause Experienced by Mid life African American Women written by Penelope Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Satisfaction and Well being for College Educated Midlife African American Women written by Sislena G. Grocer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Exploration of Life Patterns in Midlife African American Women with Type 2 Diabetes written by Sophia Brasher Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in Midlife written by Grace Baruch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study of Women In Midlife GRACE K. BARUCH AND JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN To describe the middle years-that relatively long span when one is neither young nor old-as a neglected period may no longer be accurate, given current scientific and popular interest in adult development and aging. But midlife is still too often seen merely as a kind of staging area on the way to old age, when one gathers one's forces and tries to stock up on assets-health, money, relationships-that will be needed for the rigors of the last phase of life. The middle years have been characterized more as a transition period than as a time of growth, satisfaction, and creativity. As this volume will show, although midlife is not without its difficulties, it is, for many women, a time of unexpected pleasure, even power. MAJOR THEMES A central theme of this volume is the impact of social change. The influence of economic conditions, of ideology, of the normative timing of such life events as age of marriage and childbearing, are addressed in many chapters from hlany different perspectives. Social changes are shown to have both negative and positive consequences. On the nega tive side, for example, the sex differential in life expectancy is a biosocial phenomenon that greatly restricts the availability of sexual partners-or, more precisely, heterosexual partners-for older women.
Download or read book Dimensions of Racial Identity as Predictors of Physical Activity in Midlife African American Women written by Elaine C. Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Psychological phenomenological Study of African American Women s Decision to Enter Higher Education at Midlife written by Helen Joyce Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
