The bitch is back: older, wiser, and (getting) happier

1. Me, myself, and my midlife choices: my way or the highway

Five crucial things the fifty-three-year-old bitch knows that the thirty-nine-year-old bitch didn't (yet) / Pam Houston

Vagina. Notwithstanding / Jennifer Finney Boylan

Gone girl: what I (don't) owe my mother / Anna March

Wrinkles in time. Or not. / Debora L. Spar

What's love got to do with it?: I'm havin' my baby / Lizzie Skurnick

The "other woman" then and now / Kerry Herlihy

Dirty work / Kathy Thomas, as told to Cathi Hanauer

2. Sex, lies, and happy(ish) endings: because this ain't Disney, dolls. It's life

The coming of age: sex 102 / Sarah Crichton

Still in the heart / Hazel McClay

My filthy little heart: Love it? Or lose it? / Claire Johnson

Once a week: take it or leave it / Grace O'Malley

Fifty shades of free / Robin Rinaldi

My war with sex / Lynn Darling

3. To Hell, and to hold

Her life. My life: two women, two worlds / Erin White

Jason, me, and Jesus: the other guy in our relationship / Veronica Chambers

Trading places: we both wanted to stay home. He won. But so did I. / Julianna Baggett

Beyond the myth of co-parenting: what we lost

and gained

by abandoning equality /

Hope Edelman

Now there were two / Jill Bialosky

Living alone: a fantasy / Sandra Tsing Loh

4. Starting over

Second time around: letting go of convention (and listening to my mother) / Kate Christensen

What was in it for ME: saying yes, saying no, leaning in, leaning out / Rabia Hussein

Stepping off the scale / Ann Hood

Getting it right the third time. Or wrong. You tell me. / Karen Karbo

Yes / Susanna Sonnenberg

A new life under the ladder / Cynthia Kling.