The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today
“Born out of anger,” the essays in The Bitch in the House chronicled the face of womanhood at the beginning of a new millennium. Now, nearly fifteen years later, editor and author Cathi Hanauer has compiled a new batch of passionate, enlightened, often hilarious pieces that are less bitter and resentful, and more confident and content—a provocative and compelling companion collection that captures the spirit of postfeminism with authority, acumen, and panache.
Having aged into their forties, fifties, and sixties, these “bitches”—bestselling authors, renowned journalists, and other extraordinary yet also ordinary women—have brilliant and bold things to say. In The Bitch Is Back, Cathi Hanauer, Kate Christensen, Sarah Crichton, Debora L. Spar, Ann Hood, Veronica Chambers, and twenty other powerful writers offer unique views on womanhood and feminism today.
Some of the “original bitches” (OBs) revisit their earlier essays to reflect on their previous selves. All reveal how their lives have changed in the intervening years—whether they stayed coupled, left marriages, or had affairs; developed cancer or other physical challenges; coped with partners who strayed, died, or remained faithful; became full-time wage earners or homemakers; opened up their marriages; remained childless or became parents; or experienced other meaningful life transitions.
The Bitch Is Back includes:
As a “new wave” of feminists begins to take center stage, this powerful, timely collection sheds much-needed light on both past and present, offering understanding, compassion, and wisdom for modern women’s lives, all the while pointing toward the exciting possibilities of tomorrow.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Cathi Hanauer. (2016). The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cathi Hanauer. 2016. The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cathi Hanauer, The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier. HarperCollins, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cathi Hanauer. The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier. HarperCollins, 2016.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062389534
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01A5C7D84
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062389534
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062389527
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Editor
- name: Cathi Hanauer
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Bitch Is Back
- dateAdded
- 2016-09-23T03:05:43.38Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=2546303
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Bitch Is Back Older Wiser and (Getting) Happier
- crossRefId
- 2546303
- subtitle
- Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
- id
- 943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86
- starRating
- 3.5
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: TheBitchIsBack_9780062389534_2546303
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 830677
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062389534
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 1
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 1/17/2024
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=943c2ed3-bfe2-4b91-b8aa-e0d08d38fe86&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheBitchIsBack_2546303
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01A5C7D84
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 1/17/2024
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=943c2ed3-bfe2-4b91-b8aa-e0d08d38fe86&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheBitchIsBack_9780062389534_2546303
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 653360
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062389534
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 1/17/2024
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=943c2ed3-bfe2-4b91-b8aa-e0d08d38fe86&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Editor
- fileAs: Hanauer, Cathi
- bioText:
Cathi Hanauer is the author of three novels—My Sister's Bones, Sweet Ruin, and Gone—and is the editor of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Bitch in the House. A former columnist for Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen, she has written for The New York Times, Elle, Self, Real Simple, and other magazines. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband, New York Times "Modern Love" editor Daniel Jones, and their daughter and son.
- name: Cathi Hanauer
- imprint
- William Morrow Cookbooks
- publishDate
- 2016-09-27T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Bitch Is Back
- fullDescription
More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today
“Born out of anger,” the essays in The Bitch in the House chronicled the face of womanhood at the beginning of a new millennium. Now, nearly fifteen years later, editor and author Cathi Hanauer has compiled a new batch of passionate, enlightened, often hilarious pieces that are less bitter and resentful, and more confident and content—a provocative and compelling companion collection that captures the spirit of postfeminism with authority, acumen, and panache.
Having aged into their forties, fifties, and sixties, these “bitches”—bestselling authors, renowned journalists, and other extraordinary yet also ordinary women—have brilliant and bold things to say. In The Bitch Is Back, Cathi Hanauer, Kate Christensen, Sarah Crichton, Debora L. Spar, Ann Hood, Veronica Chambers, and twenty other powerful writers offer unique views on womanhood and feminism today.
Some of the “original bitches” (OBs) revisit their earlier essays to reflect on their previous selves. All reveal how their lives have changed in the intervening years—whether they stayed coupled, left marriages, or had affairs; developed cancer or other physical challenges; coped with partners who strayed, died, or remained faithful; became full-time wage earners or homemakers; opened up their marriages; remained childless or became parents; or experienced other meaningful life transitions.
The Bitch Is Back includes:
- bestselling novelist, memoirist, essayist, food blogger, and OB Kate Christensen on leaving her husband and starting a new life with a much younger man;
- pseudonymous novelist and OB Hazel McClay on her low-sex marriage (and how she and her husband continue to be happy with it);
- bestselling novelist and poet Julianna Baggott on life as the sole breadwinner in her family of six;
- power publisher Sarah Crichton on the joy of sex again after sixty—after being dumped for a younger woman;
- memoirist Lynn Darling on dealing with sex and sexuality in midlife, after beating breast cancer;
- bestselling author—and former skinny girl—Ann Hood on not caring about her weight anymore;
- and nineteen more eye-opening, jaw-dropping, truth-telling, no-holds-barred essays about what it really means to be a woman of substance today.
As a “new wave” of feminists begins to take center stage, this powerful, timely collection sheds much-needed light on both past and present, offering understanding, compassion, and wisdom for modern women’s lives, all the while pointing toward the exciting possibilities of tomorrow.
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: New York Times Book Review
- content:
"[A]t once thrilling and reassuring. . . . [T]he anger of the previous book has been replaced by a graceful reckoning and the welcome realization that if we're trapped at all, it's only within the confines of certain realities." — New York Times Book Review
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Successful women writers reflect on being mature and female in early-21st-century America.In this sequel to The Bitch in the House (2002), novelist/journalist Hanauer (Gone, 2012, etc.) gathers essays by nine original Bitch contributors and by such writers as Jennifer Finney Boylan, Robin Rinaldi, Sandra Tsing Loh, and Kate Christensen. The book is divided into four sections and begins with musings on lifestyle choices. Original contributor Pam Houston begins the anthology by reflecting on lessons she has learned about herself--for example, how her need for alone time trumps any need for a relationship--since writing her first Bitch essay. Transgender writer Boylan uses her move to a new job in New York as an opportunity to meditate on the upheaval that took place when she first came out. Sexual expression at midlife is the subject of the second section. Writers Robin Rinaldi and Sara Crichton write about the liberating sexual rebirths they experienced after ages 40 and 55, and Grace O'Malley discusses the unexpected joys of weekly scheduled sex with her husband of many decades. In the third section, women tell stories of the tribulations of married life. Erin White discusses how she and her wife "were the very opposite of radical" in the problems they faced and overcame as spouses, while Loh reflects on the rocky road to sharing a less-than-perfect life with her "lovable, getting-on-in-years" boyfriend. The final section deals with different kinds of starting over. For Susan Sonnenberg, a new life meant taking a chance on "the impulsive and rash and glorious" and saying "yes" to a second husband. But for Cynthia Kling, it meant a volunteer job teaching prison inmates that taught her lessons in "what really matters in life." Sharp and lively, these essays offer insight not only into individual writers, but an entire generation of women coming to terms with the possibilities and limitations of their lives as older females. A provocative collection about "what happens later, after those frantic, demanding, exhausting years with work and very young kids and, sometimes, not enough money." COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 1, 2016
Published nearly 15 years ago, Hanauer's The Bitch in the House collected the voices of 26 mostly professional women venting about work, marriage, motherhood, and more. Here, nine of the original contributors, plus 16 new voices, reflect on their intervening experiences while offering more seasoned thoughts on those issues today. Primed to catch new-wave feminism; with a 75,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
September 1, 2016
In this sequel to her best-selling anthology The Bitch in the House, Hanauer brings together nine returning contributors along with 16 new voices to check in with her cohort of women experiencing midlife. The first collection focused on the anger and unhappiness of women struggling to balance professional careers with marriage and family life; this second book explores the lives of women who made significant changes in their lives. The results are mixed. Featured writers are overwhelmingly straight, white women with professional identities offset by a smattering of working-class and nonwhite perspectives, a lone woman with a cis gender female partner, and one trans woman's reflections. Several essays turn on the strength of the author's life partnership, but relationship tension and sexual dissatisfaction predominate. Many of the authors endured years of angry disappointment in themselves and their partners before making often-desperate change. Strikingly absent is critique of the structural forces and cultural expectations that continue to warp our individual experiences of marriage, parenting, and sexuality. VERDICT Readers struggling with unhappiness as wives and mothers may find solace in these stories; those seeking broader political or socialized solutions should look elsewhere. [See Prepub Alert, 3/14/16.]--Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc. Lib., Boston
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- popularity
- 176
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/943c2ed3-bfe2-4b91-b8aa-e0d08d38fe86/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 943c2ed3-bfe2-4b91-b8aa-e0d08d38fe86
- starRating
- 3.5
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2363-1/{943C2ED3-BFE2-4B91-B8AA-E0D08D38FE86}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Family & Relationships
- value: Sociology
- value: Women's Studies
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 09/27/2016
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062389527
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today
“Born out of anger,” the essays in The Bitch in the House chronicled the face of womanhood at the beginning of a new millennium. Now, nearly fifteen years later, editor and author Cathi Hanauer has compiled a new batch of passionate, enlightened, often hilarious pieces that are less bitter and resentful, and more confident and content—a provocative and compelling companion collection that captures the spirit of postfeminism with authority, acumen, and panache.
Having aged into their...
- sortTitle
- Bitch Is Back Older Wiser and (Getting) Happier
- crossRefId
- 2546303
- subtitle
- Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
- publisher
- HarperCollins
- bisacCodes
- code: FAM030000
- description: Family & Relationships / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
- code: FAM034000
- description: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General
- code: SOC028000
- description: Social Science / Women's Studies
