Audacity: What No One Tells Women About Midlife

Audacity is a feminist midlife book with teeth. It tells women the truth about what midlife is: not a crisis to manage, but a reckoning with the cultural, historical, and structural forces that have shaped their lives since adolescence. It draws on women's and gender studies, somatic psychology, contemplative traditions, and the author's own path from homesteader to advocate to cancer survivor to scholar. It moves from naming the systems, to reclaiming the self, to acting in the world with recovered authority. Think bell hooks meets Glennon Doyle, but sharper and less interested in being liked. For women who are done being cheerfully encouraged toward their best years and want someone to tell them the truth.