Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women

"An extraordinary panorama of women's lives today."--The New York Times Book Review

In detailed, revealing portraits of women from their teens through their sixties, Maggie Scarf explores the core experiences of women's lives and discovers what can happen when the days and years scurry by, leaving unfinished the tasks that transform us from child to girl to woman.

Praise for Unfinished Business

"Real-life problems are thoughtfully and sympathetically analyzed in Unfinished Business. . . . Love and loss, deprivation and fulfillment, the pangs of growing up and, worse, the plight of those who never do--these are Scarf's subjects, and she gives them the attention and respect rightly due such integral threads in the fabric of our lives."--Cosmopolitan

"No woman or man will be untouhed by Maggie Scarf's brilliant research. There is a gift for all of us in these pages--that freeing, exhilarating emotion: thank God I read this book--I thought I was the only one."--Nancy Friday

Author: Maggie Scarf
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/01/1995
Pages: 642
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.54w x 1.65d
ISBN13: 9780345471734
ISBN10: 0345471733
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Psychology | Psychopathology | General
- Psychology | Developmental | Lifespan Development

About the Author
Maggie Scarf is a former visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, and a current fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. She was for many years a contributing editor to the New Republic and a member of the advisory board of the American Psychiatric Press.