Age ain't nothing but a number : Black women explore midlife /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brice, Carleen, 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]
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.

Table of Contents:

Who says an older woman shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles
Age / Nikki Giovanni
The affirmation / Patricia Raybon
Journal (February 12, 1987) / Alice Walker
Unlocking midlife / Jackie Warren-Moore
Games / Jackie Warren-Moore
What I learned on the way to getting old : don't tell your age and other lessons / Elyse Singleton
Midlife blues / Carmen Turner
How to fly into fifty (without a fear of flying) / S. Pearl Sharp
The ball of a lifetime / Trudier Harris-Lopez
In search of meaningful work / Jan Thomas
Dreaming of crones / Carleen Brice
New bones / Lucille Clifton
Choosing longevity / Susan L. Taylor
Maneuvering through menopause : a rite of passage / Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter.
To my last period / Lucille Clifton
Hair matters at midlife / Brenda J. Allen
Am I ugly? / Terri Sutton
Banyan trunk / Ada Nelribi
From I left my back door open / April Sinclair
Used / Rita Dove
My cups used to runneth over / Diane Donaldson
Middle-age UFO / Colleen McElroy
From a day late and a dollar short / Terry McMillan
Homegirl reunion / Joan Hopewell-Hartgens
Letting go with love / Miriam Decosta-Willis
From the women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
Babies??!! / Tina McElroy Ansa
Adoption : a midlife love story / Sheila Stainback
The pathway home / Stephanie Rose Bird
The dance of life / Wuanda M. T. Walls
Full circling / Elaine Lee
In the heat of shadow / Jewelle Gomez
Parents, wives, and womanhood : the lessons we never learned / Ta'shia Asanti Karade
Age and sexuality / Maya Angelou
Trust me / Pearl Cleage
Gray pussy hair / Opal Palmer Adisa
Safer sex (before and) after fifty / Gale Madyun
Plum jelly in hot shiny jars / Akasha Gloria Hull
It might as well be spring / Carleen Brice
The company she keeps / Colleen McElroy
From do-it-yourself rainbows / J. California Cooper.