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Author:   Dr. Lori West Peterson ,  Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger ,  Jay Baglia ,  Koji Fuse
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9781498584104

ISBN 10:   1498584101
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   30 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Echoes of Your Presence Chapter 2: And Then There Were Two Chapter 3: Solid as Cracked Granite: Living Alone at Mid-Life Chapter 4: The Goal at the End of the American Dream: Talking about Work, Retirement, and Marriage Chapter 5: Requium for My Fond Memories of My Son: An Autoethnographic Journey of My Empty Midlife as a Bicultural Diaspora Chapter 6: Reframing Motherhood: The Therapeutic Value of Narrative Chapter 7 Beginning Again: Diagnosis as Breach, Survival as a New Normal Chapter 8 Ripping Off the Bandaid: Cancer at Midlife Chapter 9 Failure at Forty: A Genealogy of an Unanticipated Midlife Chapter 10 Sexuality as Spirituality: A Phenomenology of Synchronicity Chapter 11 Reflections on a Mid-life Crisis: My Chang(ed)(ing) Life After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Chapter 12 The Midlife Experience: Thirty Years in the Making

Reviews

Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is a welcome and vital addition to the literature on interpersonal, family, health, and organizational communication. The contributors of the stories in the collection navigate their way through the confusion, challenges, and competing demands they experience as they move through midlife. This is a soulful collection of deeply personal, evocative, and vulnerable autoethnographic stories that will make readers more mindful of the necessity and difficulties of dealing effectively with the expected and the unforeseen. -- Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida Lori West Peterson and Christine Kiesinger have edited a collection of deeply personal narratives, inviting readers to join the authors as they open windows to an array of experiences of midlife. Of particular benefit to those wishing to find nuance in distinctions, is the organization of the book by those stories of lives on track, and others, off the rails, allowing readers and students of aging and life stages to reflect on the subtle ways we measure our lives while both celebrating and struggling with the circumstances we face. -- Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University

Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is a welcome and vital addition to the literature on interpersonal, family, health, and organizational communication. The contributors of the stories in the collection navigate their way through the confusion, challenges, and competing demands they experience as they move through midlife. This is a soulful collection of deeply personal, evocative, and vulnerable autoethnographic stories that will make readers more mindful of the necessity and difficulties of dealing effectively with the expected and the unforeseen. -- Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida

Author Information

Lori West Peterson is associate professor of communication at St. Edward’s University. Christine Elizabeth Kiesingeris lead facilitator and curriculum developer for Leadership Wilkes-Barre.

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