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In the twenty-first hundred years, a developmental period of life is emerging as significant and distinctive, capturing our interest, participating our curiosity, and increasing our knowledge of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as seen as a people-those between age groups fifty and seventy-five-who are believed "neither young nor old." In our "third chapters" we could starting to redefine our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging; we could challenging cultural meanings of durability, maturity, electricity, and sexiness. This is a chapter in life when the original norms, rules, and rituals of the careers appear less encompassing and restrictive; when many women and men appear to be embracing new challenges and looking for greater meaning in life. In The Third Section, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers a solid counterpoint to the murky ambivalence that shrouds our clear view of individuals in their third chapters. She troubles the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways that the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in simple fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives-tracing the ways that knowledge, experience, and new learning motivate individual progress and cultural change. The women and men whose voices load the internet pages of The Third Chapter give passionate and poignant reviews of risk and vulnerability, failing and resilience, challenge and mastery, experimentation and improvisation, and information and new learning.
