Playing Around
Women and Infidelity
Published on 30. September 2014
248 pages
978-1-4976-8097-5 (ISBN)
Description
Intimate, explosive, revelatory
American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women's primary relationships? More emotionally satisfying? Did they feel guilt? Did they keep their affairs secret or admit them to partners or friends? And, whether confessed or not, how did infidelity affect the women's lives?
Intimate and explosive, Playing Aroundexplores the pleasures and pains of female infidelity and illuminates women's participation in a behavior that is often viewed as predominantly male.
American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women's primary relationships? More emotionally satisfying? Did they feel guilt? Did they keep their affairs secret or admit them to partners or friends? And, whether confessed or not, how did infidelity affect the women's lives?
Intimate and explosive, Playing Aroundexplores the pleasures and pains of female infidelity and illuminates women's participation in a behavior that is often viewed as predominantly male.
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Murder of Dr. Chapman,and
Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder, an Edgar Award nominee and aNew York TimesNotable Book. She is also the author of
My Daughter, Myself, a memoir;
The Literary Gourmet, a classic cookbook; and
Private Practices, a novel.Wolfe's articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, among them
Vanity Fair, the
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New Yorkmagazine, of which she was a contributing editor. She currently writes a column about books for the websitewww.FabOverFifty.com.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Content
- Part I. From Adultery to Extramarital Sex
- (1) The Spirit of the Times
- (2) Clues to the Adulterous Woman from Literature and History
- Part II. Interviewing: Marriage
- Who the Women Are
- Staying Married
- (1) Long-term Affairs
- Sylvia Shusky/I Can't Bear Loneliness
- Evelyn Clement/Just How Worthwhile Is That Self?
- (2) Sporadic Affairs
- Regina Beaudeker/Is It Just the Fact of a New Body?
- Catherine Lewyt/Maybe I'll Be President of the P.T.A.
- Sara Nicols/Am I Imitating the Behavior of Our Oppressors?
- Prudence Phillips/My Body Changed after I Turned Thirty
- (3) Romance
- Dora Rubin/The Long Life and Sad Death of a Fantasy
- (4) Brief Encounters
- Jeanette Giddings/If My Husband Only Knew
- Rita Hemp/In Those Days I Never Had Orgasms
- Amanda Greenough/If He'd Looked, He'd Have Seen No Lipstick
- Madelaine Leffert/Everyone Seemed So Frivolous in the Sun
- Betty Riesling/I Love the Game of Seduction
- Maggie Berk/I Became My Old Self Again
- Sukey Dobbs/It's Taken Me So Long to Appreciate Just Sex
- Kay Mordechai/It Was Fun and Educational
- (5) Adulterous Personalities and Adultery-Provoking Marriages
- Irene Brakhage/Two Men to Love
- Shirley Randolph/You Can Tell in Advance
- Breaking Up
- (6) Deciding to Be Alone
- Carol Battersby/Stop Teaching. Have a Baby. It'll All Be Okay
- Rose Marie Corelli/It's Always Oneself When One Says "The Kids"
- Gail O'Connor/Breaking the Crutch
- Gwen Tully/Only Crazies Would Have Come Along
- (7) Deciding to Realign
- Beverly Sneden/Most People Mourn the Death of Their Marriages
- Ann Simpson/It Wasn't Just a Case of "Her or Me"
- Barbara Bendiner/I Decided, Let Them Laugh
- (8) The Decisions of Husbands
- Claire Obrist/The Little Things Add Up
- Miriam Mindell/Affairs Seemed Wiser than Divorce
- Jolla Marshall/Making Marriage Work
- Phyllis Eanes/A Time for Negotiating
- Part III. Interviewing: Experimental Marriage
- Staying Married
- (1) Accommodators
- Amelia Furman/My Husband Would Be the Perfect Lover
- Cleo and Paul Amber/We Had a Discussion and Chose Open Marriage
- (2) Instigators
- Pamela Lewisohn/I Don't Believe in Casual Sex
- Patricia and David Dorsky/There Are All Different Kinds of Loves
- Breaking Up
- (3) Gains and Losses
- Judy Miller/Sex As the Holy Grail
- Alexandra Newman/Handmaiden
- Lydia Marks/Who Can Be Trusted When It Comes to Sex?
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
