Frances Cohen Praver

Daring Wives (eBook, PDF)

Insight into Women's Desires for Extramarital Affairs

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Riveting vignettes show the inner and outer lives of women engaged in extramarital affairs. In spotlighting the many influences that spur women to cheat-from marital discord, childhood histories and sociopolitical history to pop and postmodern culture-Dr. Praver neither condemns nor condones such affairs. Instead, she aims to help wives and husbands question their own desires and actions, recognize their own roles in marital problems, and become inspired to find creative solutions. This work is an intimate and comprehensive examination of wives' desires for extramarital affairs. It includes vignettes from younger and older wives, as well as working, stay-at-home and remarried wives, from those with and without children, and from those who turn to same-sex affairs. The authoritative and scholary underpinnings are presented in a reader-friendly style that will appeal to all women, as well as to clinicians and academics. Readers who are involved in or considering extramarital affairs will feel supported, validated, and inspired to enter into a dialogue for change. This book and its vivid case studies, filled with dialogue that allows readers a front-row seat in the therapy room, inspire one to listen and learn without harsh perjorative judgments. While the issues here are profound, the book is always evocative and enjoyable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313055201
• Artikelnr.: 68528287

Autorenporträt

Frances Cohen Praver, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst working primarily with middle-aged people and couples caring for aging parents. She has appeared on television shows including Good Morning America and The Phil Donahue Show, and has lectured on trauma and traumatic stress in Grand Rounds at several hospitals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Out of the Closet: The Fair Sex and Infidelity Drastic Double
Standards and Daring Wives What a Difference a Century Makes: Female
Infidelity and the Double Standard Not So Sweet Home: Stay in the Abode
Wives Wanderlust while They Work: Working Wives and Outside Romance Young
and Restless: The World's Their Oyster Older and Bolder: Under Cover with a
Younger Lover Remarriages and Regrets: Out of Step with Stepfamilies Same
Sex Affairs: Wives with Women Lovers Sex Goes Awry Conclusion: Implications
for Marriage and American Society