The Second Half

Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty

Ellen Warner

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781684580866
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684580873
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty. 
 
The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives.  She asked them what they learned in the first half that was helpful in the second, and what advice they would give to younger women. Their revealing and inspiring stories are enlightening for all readers, and are illustrated by Warner's stunning portraits which tell their own story.

 

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Odette Walling: Born 1920, interviewed at age 86 • Resistance leader, Ravensbrück prisoner #47321, King's Medal for Courage, and Médaille de la Résistance • Paris, France
• Jean Angell: Born 1944, interviewed at age 65 • Lawyer with Lou Gehrig’s Disease • Prouts Neck, Maine, U.S.A.
• Roxy Beaujolais: Born ca. 1947, interviewed at age 60 • Publican of the Seven Stars • Carey Street, London, England
• Teresa Sayward: Born 1945, interviewed at age 64 • State assemblywoman and retired farmer • Willsboro, New York, U.S.A.
• Leslie Caron: Born 1931, interviewed at age 77 • Actress • Paris, France
• Dr. Fathia Al Sulimani: Born 1950, interviewed at age 60 • Nephrologist • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Marilynn Preston: Born 1946, interviewed at age 60 • Journalist, playwright, and Emmy Award–winning TV producer • Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
• Jacqueline Délia Brémond: Born 1936, interviewed at age 70 • Publisher, co-founder and co-chair of Fondation Ensemble • Paris, France
• Fatma Doufen: Born ca. 1945, interviewed at age 62 • Tuareg nomad • The Sahara, 36 kilometers from Tamanrasset, Algeria
• Françoise Simon: Born 1931, interviewed at age 76 • Portrait painter • Paris, France
• Luisah Teish: Born 1948, interviewed at age 60 • Shaman, teacher of Transformation, and spiritual anthropologist • San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
• Perla Servan-Schreiber: Born 1943, interviewed at age 62 • Publisher, writer, and founder of Psychologie magazine • Paris, France
• Irene Carlos: Born ca. 1900, interviewed at age 107 • Retired cook • Antigua, West Indies
• Ni Ketut Takil: Born ca. 1932, interviewed at age 75 • Jero Balian (sacred healer) • Banjar Baung Sayan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
• Bokara Legendre: Born 1940, interviewed at age 70 • Actress, writer, artist, and TV presenter • New York and South Carolina, U.S.A.
• Salama Ba Sunbol: Born ca. 1957, interviewed at age 53 • Embroidery specialist and trainer • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Tamasin Day-Lewis: Born 1953, interviewed at age 55 • Documentary filmmaker, food critic, chef, and author • Somerset, England
• Georgia Nikitara: Born ca. 1932, interviewed at age 74 • Farmer • Patmos, Greece
• Giuliana Camerino: Born 1920, interviewed at age 86 • Founder of the design firm Roberta di Camerino • Venice, Italy
• Ada Gates: Born 1943, interviewed at age 67 • Farrier, first woman in North America licensed to shoe thoroughbred horses • Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
• Ma Thanegi: Born 1946, interviewed at age 65 • Journalist, author, and Ang San Suu Kyi’s former personal assistant • Yangon, Myanmar
• Flora Biddle: Born 1928, interviewed at age 80 • Writer, former board president for the Whitney Museum of American Art • New York City, U.S.A.
• Elizabeth Jane Howard: Born 1923, interviewed at age 84 • Author • Bungay Bay, Suffolk, England
• Modestine Browne: Born 1930, interviewed at age 76 • Retired cook • Antigua, West Indies
• Cristina Loring De Saavedra: Born 1947, interviewed at age 61 • Madrid, Spain
• Christine Ockrent: Born 1944, interviewed at age 62 • First French woman TV anchor • Paris, France
• Peggy Elliott: Born 1942, interviewed at age 64 • Manicurist • Fishers Island, New York, and West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
• Lady Elizabeth Longman: Born 1924, interviewed at age 82 • Wife of the last head of Longman Publishing Company and bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth II • London, England
• Lali Al Balushi: Born ca. 1950, interviewed at age 60 • Housewife • South Mabela, outside of Muscat, Oman
• Tullia Zevi: Born 1919, interviewed at age 89 • Musician, journalist, president of the Italian Jewish Communities, and vice president of European Jewish Communities • Rome, Italy
• Lama Yeshe Drolma: Born 1945, interviewed at age 61 • Buddhist teacher in the Bodi Path tradition • Lubeck, Germany
• Lulu Balcom: Born 1912, interviewed at age 95 • Artist • Fishers Island, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
• Dodie Rosekrans: Born 1919, interviewed at age 88 • Art collector and patron • San Francisco, Paris, and Venice, Italy
• Elo Papasin: Born 1946, interviewed at age 60 • Housekeeper and cook from Manila, the Philippines • Paris, France
• Monika Kochs: Born ca. 1946, interviewed at age 61 • Artist • Salzburg, Austria
• Marina Ma: Born 1923, interviewed at age 85 • Mother of Dr. Yo-Chen Ma and Yo-Yo Ma, cellist • Long Beach, New York, U.S.A.
• Charlotte Mosley: Born 1952, interviewed at age 55 • Journalist, publisher, and editor of the letters of the Mitford sisters • Paris, France
• Marilyn Nelson: Born 1946, interviewed at age 74 • Author, translator, and former Poet Laureate of Connecticut • East Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
• Blanche Blackwell: Born 1912, interviewed at age 95 • Ian Fleming’s last great love, and mother of Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records • London, England
• Olivia De Havilland: Born 1916, interviewed at age 92 • Actress • Paris, France
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors