a ISBN 0-285-63710X3-1

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number PS509.N4

b Item number A35 2003

a Dewey Classification 810.8/09287/096073

a Title Age ain't nothing but a number :

b Remainder of title Black women explore midlife /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Carleen Brice.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Boston :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Beacon Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2003.

a Extent xiii, 233 p. ;

c Dimensions 22 cm.

a Formatted contents note Who says an older woman shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- Age / Nikki Giovanni -- The affirmation / Patricia Raybon -- Journal (February 12, 1987) / Alice Walker -- Unlocking midlife / Jackie Warren-Moore -- Games / Jackie Warren-Moore -- What I learned on the way to getting old : don't tell your age and other lessons / Elyse Singleton -- Midlife blues / Carmen Turner -- How to fly into fifty (without a fear of flying) / S. Pearl Sharp -- The ball of a lifetime / Trudier Harris-Lopez -- In search of meaningful work / Jan Thomas -- Dreaming of crones / Carleen Brice -- New bones / Lucille Clifton -- Choosing longevity / Susan L. Taylor -- Maneuvering through menopause : a rite of passage / Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter. -- To my last period / Lucille Clifton -- Hair matters at midlife / Brenda J. Allen -- Am I ugly? / Terri Sutton -- Banyan trunk / Ada Nelribi -- From I left my back door open / April Sinclair -- Used / Rita Dove -- My cups used to runneth over / Diane Donaldson -- Middle-age UFO / Colleen McElroy -- From a day late and a dollar short / Terry McMillan -- Homegirl reunion / Joan Hopewell-Hartgens -- Letting go with love / Miriam Decosta-Willis -- From the women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor -- Babies??!! / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Adoption : a midlife love story / Sheila Stainback -- The pathway home / Stephanie Rose Bird -- The dance of life / Wuanda M. T. Walls -- Full circling / Elaine Lee -- In the heat of shadow / Jewelle Gomez -- Parents, wives, and womanhood : the lessons we never learned / Ta'shia Asanti Karade -- Age and sexuality / Maya Angelou -- Trust me / Pearl Cleage -- Gray pussy hair / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Safer sex (before and) after fifty / Gale Madyun -- Plum jelly in hot shiny jars / Akasha Gloria Hull -- It might as well be spring / Carleen Brice -- The company she keeps / Colleen McElroy -- From do-it-yourself rainbows / J. California Cooper.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element African American women

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Middleaged women

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Middleaged women

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Middle age

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aging

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Middle age

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aging

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element African American women

a Personal name Brice Carleen

d Dates associated with a name 1963

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2003001235.html