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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

The collection that made her name, in its third edition with a foreword by Emma Watson. The famous undercover Playboy Bunny exposé is here alongside…

Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles

Six long essays taking apart the invented categories of gender and race, including the original Doing Sixty. Written with what one reviewer called cool humour…

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!

A collected, illustrated gathering of Steinem’s sharpest lines, with new essays framing them, published when she was eighty-five. Short enough to dip into and quotable…

Doing Sixty & Seventy

One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed. Two long essays on women and ageing from a writer who…

An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Steinem’s final memoir, published weeks after her death at 92. She returns to her early life and to the equal-rights movements she helped build, and…

Cynthia Peabody’s Big Fat Fake Funeral: Absentminded Witness

Everything is tickety-boo at The Green Meadows retirement village until Cynthia’s dear friend accidentally witnesses a murder and, in shock, cannot remember a thing. With…

The Extraordinary Dreams of Cynthia Peabody: Book One: Arthur

Recently widowed and facing a future she describes as a dreary blur, Cynthia Peabody cannot sleep. Meditating against the insomnia, she finds a portal in…

Too Private To Publish

The first of twelve linked romances set on an Australian island where nobody minds their own business. Celia Hart has kept her life orderly and…

Feral: A Grown Woman’s Guide to a Free and Ferocious Life

Millar is seventy-four and has had five careers, including civil engineering, teaching physics, building and losing businesses, and running a global headhunting firm through the…

RISE: A Book of Second Chances

Margaret Fleming published her first book at eighty-eight, and she is still practicing as a psychotherapist. Rise covers a childhood destroyed by her father, a…

Women Over 70: Reimagining Aging, Place, and Possibilities

Marienau and Zelitzky have spent years interviewing women between seventy and one hundred and ten for their podcast, and this is the book that came…

Revolting Women

Built on original doctoral research into why professional women over fifty are walking out of organizations that spent decades training them. Ryan names the triple…

Act Like You’re Having a Good Time

Essays on being a mature woman still looking for a life of purpose while popular culture treats her as finished. Weldon is funny about invisibility…

A Delightful Little Book on Aging

Short essays on getting older written without either dread or forced positivity. Raffelock is good on the small daily adjustments that nobody warns you about…

Creatrix Rising

Raffelock argues for a third archetype beyond maiden and mother: the woman whose creative and public life begins in earnest after fifty. Against the framing…

This Much is True

Veronica Harmon is celebrating her fifty-eighth birthday when she meets her daughter’s future father-in-law and recognizes him from a night in high school she has…

The Badass Widows

A retired FBI agent and three fellow widows investigate a death the police have written off. From Sibylline Press, which publishes women authors over fifty…

The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement

An AARP book for the woman planning later life on one income, whether by divorce, widowhood or choice. Covers money, housing, health and the social…

Moving Forward on Your Own

Written by a widowed certified financial planner for widows, and paced to the reality that the first year is not when good decisions get made.…

Gray Divorce, Silver Linings

A financial guide for women divorcing after fifty, when there is less time to recover and the marital estate is usually the whole retirement plan.…

Strong Women, Strong Bones

Nelson is a Tufts researcher published in JAMA and the NEJM, and this is the evidence-based end of a shelf otherwise dominated by reversal claims.…

Advanced Style

Street photography of women mostly over sixty who dress with total conviction. The argument is made entirely in pictures: that style is a form of…

How to Be Old

Slater was a professor who became, accidentally, a fashion-world figure in her sixties. The memoir is about refusing invisibility without turning it into a brand,…

ME & MY MENOPAUSAL VAGINA

A single-subject book on vaginal atrophy, the genitourinary syndrome of menopause that affects a large majority of postmenopausal women and is discussed by almost none…

Miss Major Speaks

Miss Major, a Black trans woman in her late seventies, in conversation about Stonewall, prison organizing, six decades of movement work, and the particular authority…

A Body, Undone

At fifty, a cycling accident left Crosby, a professor and a lesbian, quadriplegic. She writes about pain, dependence, desire and gender in a body that…

Bless the Birds

Tweit and her husband got his terminal brain-cancer diagnosis and decided to spend the time left travelling and looking at birds. A caregiving memoir that…

Dying: A Memoir

Written at sixty with terminal brain cancer, in a matter of weeks. Taylor is unillusioned about dying, angry about having no legal means to choose…

Somebody I Used to Know

Mitchell was fifty-eight, working for the NHS, when she was diagnosed with young-onset dementia. Written from inside the diagnosis rather than beside it, which is…

Driving Miss Norma

Ninety years old and newly diagnosed with uterine cancer, Norma Bauerschmidt declined treatment and got in the motorhome with her son and daughter-in-law instead. A…

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk

In 1955 Emma Gatewood told her children she was going for a walk and became the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail alone, at…

Tales of a Female Nomad

Gelman dismantled a settled life at forty-eight and kept moving for the next two decades, living with families rather than in hotels. A founding text…

Walking the Gobi

Thayer was sixty-three, and her husband seventy-four, when they walked sixteen hundred miles across the Gobi in summer. She is matter-of-fact about the physical arithmetic…

The Widow’s Crayon Box

Poems written after the death of Peacock’s husband, refusing what she calls the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence. Covers the long caregiving before…

On Women Turning Fifty

Interviews and portraits of women at fifty, on work, bodies, marriages and what they intend to do with the second half. The first in the…

Passages in Caregiving

Sheehy maps caregiving as a passage with predictable stages, drawn from her own seventeen years of it. Practical about the logistics and unusually direct about…

The Silent Passage

The book that broke the public silence on menopause, reported rather than confessed, at a point when the subject was still largely absent from medicine…

Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

Jong at fifty, taking stock of the sexual revolution she helped write and of what it actually delivered to the women who lived it. The…

Crones Don’t Whine

Thirteen qualities Bolen argues are worth cultivating in the crone years, from a Jungian analyst who spent a career arguing that older women have archetypal…

On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light

Piercy at eighty-four, writing poems about cats, cooking, marriage, the dead, and her own approaching end with no softening whatsoever. The late work of a…

Tell Me Everything

Olive Kitteridge, now ninety, and Lucy Barton, in her sixties, spend a Maine winter telling each other the unrecorded lives of women they have known.…

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

Maud is eighty-eight, and the assumption that an old woman could not possibly be dangerous continues to work entirely in her favor. The follow-up to…

Kills Well with Others

The sequel to Killers of a Certain Age. Four women assassins, retired and comprehensively underestimated, are pulled back in, and their invisibility to everyone under…

The Seven Sisters

Candida Wilton leaves a marriage and a comfortable house for a bedsit and a diary, and slowly assembles a new life out of very little.…

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Alma Cruz, a novelist in her sixties, retires from teaching and writing and buries her unfinished manuscripts in a plot of land, whereupon the characters…

The Soul of a Woman

Allende at seventy-eight on feminism, impatient love, rage, and what a long life teaches a woman about her own appetite. Short, unhedged, and addressed directly…

Love, Again

Sarah Durham, a widowed theatre producer in her sixties, falls unexpectedly and humiliatingly in love, and has to reckon with desire in a body the…

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

Hilary Stevens, a poet in her seventies, submits to a day of interviews and ends up reviewing an entire life: the marriage, the women she…

A Reckoning

Laura Spelman, sixty, is told she has terminal lung cancer and resolves to spend what remains working out what her life actually consisted of. What…

At Eighty-Two: A Journal

Sarton’s last journal, published after her death. She is dying and knows it, and the writing narrows to essentials: pain, love, the sea, and the…

Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

Eighty, and still keeping the account: birds, letters, visitors, the garden, and a clear-eyed reckoning with how much time is left. The title is not…

Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year

The seventy-ninth year, kept partly by dictation as writing by hand became difficult. Sarton is frank about pain, dependence and diminishment, and equally frank about…

After the Stroke: A Journal

The year following her stroke at seventy-three: the loss of energy and concentration, the slow negotiation with a body that no longer complies, and the…

Recovering: A Journal

Written in her sixty-seventh year, through a mastectomy, a savage review of her work, and the end of a love affair. Sarton set out to…

The House by the Sea: A Journal

Sarton in her mid-sixties, newly settled in a house above the Maine shore, keeping the daily account of weather, flowers, visitors and work that became…

At Seventy: A Journal

The most buoyant of Sarton journals. She is seventy, with a full calendar of readings, a garden, new friendships, and the genuine surprise of finding…

Journal of a Solitude

Sarton was sixty-one when she kept this record of a single year in her New Hampshire farmhouse, writing deliberately against the sunny public image her…

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