Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women over Fifty

What’s next for the getting-older generation of women who have been redefining themselves each decade? Women turn 50 and cross into uncharted territory. Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Older Women names the new energies and potentials that come into the psyche at this momentous time, marked physiologically by menopause. Forty-five million American women will be on the far side of 50 and still active at the beginning of the 21st century. As she did in Goddesses in Everywoman, Bolen introduces a set of goddess archetypes as inner sources of wisdom, humor, outrage, decisive actions, and compassion. Goddesses in Older Women is a handbook on how to be a juicy crone, and a reason to celebrate turning 50.