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The Second Half - Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty Ellen Warner

The Second Half - Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty By Ellen Warner

The Second Half - Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty by Ellen Warner


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The Second Half - Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty by Ellen Warner

A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty.

The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives. She asked them what they learned in the first half that was helpful in the second, and what advice they would give to younger women. Their revealing and inspiring stories are enlightening for all readers, and are illustrated by Warner's stunning portraits which tell their own story.


The Second Half - Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty Reviews

A fascinating, fly-in-amber distillation of forty women over fifty, the book pushes these women to the foreground, shaking up expectations along the way. The results (are) revelatory. * Foreword Reviews, Starred Review *
Reading Ellen Warner's The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty is like having one of those intimate conversations with each of 40 women from around the world as they share their formative experiences and advice for younger generations. Their insights are particularly valuable in a country where intergenerational learning is often lost... * The Washington Post *
It is with these words (from the women in the book) that any woman who reaches the age of 50 and beyond can exhilarate in the fact that a better life is just beginning. * The New York Journal of Books *
As these women and others divulge their most difficult and joyous moments, the result is a book bristling with energy and wisdom. * BookPage, Starred Review *
The black-and-white portraits are intimate and revealing, and the interviews..are never less than fascinating... Its magic rests in the portraits, which are so wondrous that one is drawn irresistibly into the words. * Air Mail *
This is a collection of 40 beautiful portraits of 40 amazing women over 50. Gift it to all your friends, for no special occasion whatsoever. * Ms. Magazine *
22 of 2022's Top New Books (So Far) * AARP *
What makes this book really special is that the women share what they've learned from their experiences, and how those lessons will shape the rest of their lives... (it) is a compelling testament to human perseverance in the face of hardship, but also to life's enduring joys. Warner captures her subjects' candid stories sensitively and with verve. * Hyperallergic *
We need to celebrate women for not wrinkles but laugh lines. We need to see ourselves changing and growing. If that means looking older - celebrate it. Experience is as beautiful as youth. These (words and) pictures are meant to teach us that every stage of life has its own enchantment. * Erica Mann Jong, from the Foreword *
Ellen Warner's powerful and moving portraits and interviews show us what we need to know: how extremely diverse women envision the second half of women's' lives, and the wide-ranging perspectives they offer to share with us, the fortunate readers. * Professor Elaine Pagels, historian *
The faces of the women in this book, deeply etched by experience and by sorrow and yet alight with life and hope are an enduring tribute not only to Ellen's genius as a photographer skill but also to the personal qualities that give her subjects the freedom to reveal who they really are. * Pat Barker, novelist *

Warner's book beautifully reflects the challenges and opportunities of growing older in an ageist culture. The depictions of older women's complexity, diversity and resiliency offer a wonderful resource for all of us - including younger people - in our age-segregated society.

* Joan Ditzion, MSW, and Judy Norsigian, co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves *

The diverse and inspiring stories in Ellen Warner's The Second Half are as powerfully written as they are stunningly photographed, and superbly curated. Each face, each life, each page fills you with hope, and takes your breath away.

* Nandana Sen, writer, actor, activist *

Ellen Warner's photographs are deeply narrative, and in this book we are presented with a remarkable enhancement to those images: the real narratives.

* Tim Gunn, author, actor, Project Runway mentor. *

About Ellen Warner

Ellen Warner began her career as a photojournalist in 1969. Her photographs have been pub lished in numerous newspapers and magazines and exhibited extensively. Over the years, she has developed a specialty in author portraits and has worked for most publishing houses in New York and London. She has also writ ten travel articles, which have been published in the New York Times, Travel and Leisure, and The Traveller.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Erica Jong
Foreword by Sarah Lamb

Introduction

Odette Walling, born 1920, interviewed at age 86
Resistance leader, Ravensbruck Prisoner #47321, Kings Medal for Courage, Medaille de Resistance, Paris, France

Jean Angell, born ca 1942, interviewed at age 65
Lawyer with Lou Gehrig's disease, Prout's Neck, Maine, USA

Roxy Beaujolais, born ca. 1947, interviewed at age 60
Publican of the Seven Stars, Carey Street, London, England

Teresa Sayward, born ca. 1944, interviewed at age 64
State Assemblywoman, Retired Farmer, Willsboro, New York, USA

Leslie Caron, born 1931, interviewed at age 70
Actress, Paris, France

Dr. Fathia Al Sulimani, born 1950, interviewed at age 60
Nephrologist, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Marilynn Preston, born 1946, interviewed at age 60
Journalist, playwright and Emmy Award winning TV producer, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Jacqueline Delia Bremond, born 1936, interviewed at age 70
Publisher, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Fondation Ensemble, Paris, France

Fatma Doufen, born ca 1945, interviewed at age 62
Tuareg nomad in the Sahara - 36 k from Tamanrasset, Southern Algeria

Francoise Simon, born ca. 1930, interviewed at age 76
Portrait Painter, Paris, France

Luisah Teish, born ca 1948, interviewed at age 60
Shaman, Teacher of Transformation, Spiritual Anthropologist, San Francisco, California, USA

Perla Servan-Schreiber, born ca. 1944, interviewed at age 62
Publisher, writer, Founder of Psychologie magazine, Paris, France

Irene Carlos, born ca 1900, interviewed at age 107
Retired Cook, Antigua, West Indies

Ni Ketut Takil, born ca. 1935, interviewed at age 75
A Jero Balian (Sacred Healer), Banjar Baung Sayan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Bokara Legendre, born 1940, interviewed at age 70
Actress, Writer, Artist, TV presenter, New York and South Carolina, USA

Salama Ba Sunbol, born ca. 1957, interviewed at age 53
Embroidery Specialist and Trainer, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tamasin Day-Lewis, born 1953, interviewed at age 55
Documentary Filmmaker, Food Critic, Chef and Author
Somerset, England

Georgia Nikitara, born ca 1932, interviewed at age 74
Farmer, Patmos, Greece

Giuliana Camerino, born 1920, interviewed at age 86
Founder of the design firm Roberta di Camerino, Venice, Italy

Ada Gates, born 1943, interviewed at age 67
Farrier, First Woman Licensed to Shoe Thoroughbred Horses in the USA and Canada, Pasadena, California, USA

Ma Thanegi, born 1946, interviewed at age 65
Journalist, Author, Ang San Suu Kyi's Personal Assistant who went to jail with her, Yangon, Myanmar

Flora Biddle, born 1928, interviewed at age 80
Writer, past Chair of the Board of The Whitney Museum, Granddaughter of the Founder, New York City, USA

Elizabeth Jane Howard, born 1923, interviewed at age 84
Author, Bungay Bay, Suffolk, England

Modestine Brown, born ca.1931, interviewed at age 76
Retired Cook, Antigua, West Indies

Cristina Loring de Saavedra, born ca 1947, interviewed at age 61
Retired Flamenco Dancer, Madrid, Spain

Christine Ockrent, born 1944, interviewed at age 62
First women TV anchor in France, Paris, France

Peggy Elliott, born ca. 1943, interviewed at age 64
Manicurist, Fishers Island, New York and West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Lady Elizabeth Longman, born 1924, interviewed at age 82
Wife of the last head of Longman's Publishing Company, Bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth, London, England

Lali Al Balushi, born ca 1950, interviewed at age 60
Housewife, Muscat, Oman

Tullia Zevi, born 1919, interviewed at age 89
Musician, Journalist, President of the Italian Jewish Communities, Vice President of European Jewish Communities, Rome, Italy

Lama Yeshe Drolma, born ca 1945, interviewed at age 61
Buddhist Lama, Lubeck, Germany

Lulu Balcom, born 1908, interviewed at age 98
Artist, Fishers Island, New York and Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Dodie Rosecrans, born 1919, interviewed at age 88
American art collector who divides her time between San Francisco, Paris and Venice

Elo Papasin, born 1946, interviewed at age 60
Housekeeper and Cook, Manila, Philippines. Currently lives in Paris, France

Monika Kochs, born ca. 1946, interviewed at age 61
Artist, Salzburg, Austria

Marina Ma, born ca. 1923, interviewed at age 85
Mother of Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, and Dr. Yo-Chen Ma
Long Beach, New York, USA

Charlotte Mosley, born 1952, interviewed at age 55
Journalist, Publisher, Editor of the letters of the Mitford Sisters
Paris, France

Marilyn Nelson, born 1946, interviewed at age 74
Poet, Translator, Author, Former Poet Laureate of Connecticut
East Haven, Connecticut, USA

Blanche Blackwell, born 1912, interviewed at age 95
Ian Fleming's last great love, mother of Chris Blackwell who founded Virgin Records, London, England

Olivia de Havilland, born 1916, interviewed at age 92
Actress, Paris, France

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NGR9781684580866
9781684580866
1684580862
The Second Half - Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty by Ellen Warner
New
Hardback
Brandeis University Press
2022-01-20
258
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