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Tick Tock

Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40

Herausgeber: Breitbart, Vicki; Bauer-Maglin, Nan

Beschreibung

* Timely yet underrepresented topic. Voices of parents over the age of 40 are largely missing from parenting narratives, yet the number of people choosing older parenthood is on the rise, as marked by public figures like Senator Tammy Duckworth and Viola Davis. * Thirty-two contributors, with original material by: NYT-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo, award-winning author Adam Berlin, podcast producer and host Barbara Herel, retired journalist Linda Wright Moore, founder and executive director of The Democracy Center Jim Shultz, and more. * Includes diverse voices. Contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and experiences.

Autor

Vicki Breitbart holds an MSW from NYU, an MS from Bank Street, and an EdD from Teachers College, and has been a writer and educator for more than forty years. Throughout her career, she has worked extensively with young children, parents, and other educators. She is the author of The Day Care Book and Open for Children, as well as numerous academic articles on women's issues, and the producer of documentaries Sugar and Spice and Open for Children. She is the parent to a 43-year-old son and a 19-year-old daughter, who she adopted when she was 53. Nan Bauer-Maglin worked at City University of New York for almost forty years as a professor and administrator. She is the editor of Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between. She is the editor of Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk about the End of (Mostly) Long-term Relationships and the coeditor of Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger and Love; "Bad Girls/Good Girls": Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties; Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide; and Final Acts: Death, Dying and the Choices We Make . In 1977, she adopted a baby when she was 35 (which was considered old then).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dottir Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781948340458
• ISBN-10: 1948340453
• Artikelnr.: 60982100