| Description |
viii, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes - searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, as well as some that are unique to elder relationships. These include having had previous partners and a complicated and deep personal history; family and friends' reactions to an older person's dating; alternative models to marriage (such as sharing space or living apart); having more than one partner at the same time; one's aging body, appearance, and sexuality; and the pressure of time and the specter of illness and death"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood -- Prelude -- Looking at Sixty / Cynthia McVay -- Part I. To Be or Not To Be In A Relationship: Tales of Humor, Disappointment, Rewards, and Personal Insight -- Not Jane Eyre's Story / Susan Ostrov Weisser -- Discovery through Online Dating Sites: A Woman's Perspective / Phyllis Carito -- Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind / Nan Bauer-Maglin -- Confessions of an Online Dater / Neil Stein -- Advertisement for Myself / Jonathan Ned Katz -- What Would I Wear? / Laura Broadwell -- Something from Everyone / Stephanie M. Brown -- A (Mostly) Amusing Exercise in Futility / Elizabeth Locke -- Rick Redux / Candida B. Korman -- You Say Potato / Amy Rogers -- Three Dates / Margie Kaplan -- Dreams and Matches in an Unsure Virtual World / Alice F. Freed -- In Transition, Not Seeking for Now / Hedva Lewittes -- "Do You Get It Yet?" / Rett Zabriskie -- On the Road / Irvin Peckham -- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings / William Wiesner -- An Octogenarian's Adventures in Online Dating / Natasha Josefowitz -- Coping with COVID- / Phyllis Bogen -- It's Valentine's Day. So What! / Erica Manfred -- What's Sex Got To Do With It? / Judith Ugelow Blak -- Gray Love en Noir: African American Women Flying Solo by Choice and by Chance / Linda Wright Moore -- Passion and Prejudice / Jean Y. Leung -- Part II. The Complications and Pleasures of Elder Relationships -- Checking a Different Box / Jan Jacobson -- Weume / Stephanie Speer and David Levy -- Begin Again? / Sandi Goldie and Jim Bronson -- The Wizard of Algo / Vincent Valenti -- Date, Marry, Repeat / Stacey Parkins Millett -- Late in the Dating Game: Walked, Homered, Fouled Out / Eugene Roth -- Matchmaker, Matchmaker! / Isabel Hill -- A Cozy, Crowded Bed / Nan Bauer-Maglin -- Our Bench and Other Late Life Wonders / Doris Friedensohn and Paul Lauter -- Love after Seventy and Eighty / Susan O'Malley -- Where Is This Going? / Barbara Abercrombie -- Pleasures and Complications: Living Apart Together / Susan Bickley -- Parallel Matches / Anonymous -- Reflections on "Old Love" / Sarah Dunn -- A Vine of Roses / Mimi Schwartz -- From Texas to Ohio / Bonnie Fails -- Till Illness Do Us Part? / Angela Page -- What Remains Has Just Begun / Tierl Thompson and Idris Walters -- At Once / Dustin Beall Smith. |
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Love in old age.
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Older people -- Sexual behavior.
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Dating (Social customs)
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Man-woman relationships.
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Love in old age. (OCoLC)fst01002812
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Older people -- Sexual behavior.
(OCoLC)fst01199128
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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| Added Author |
Maglin, Nan Bauer, editor.
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Hood, Daniel E., editor.
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| Added Title |
Stories about dating and new relationships after sixty |
| ISBN |
9781978827271 paperback |
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197882727X paperback |
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9781978827264 hardcover |
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1978827261 hardcover |
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9781978827288 electronic book |
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9781978827295 electronic book |
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9781978827301 electronic book |
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