Penelope's Loom: A Metaphor of Women's Development at Midlife

SUSAN H. CLARK · Valerie L. Schwiebert

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Literature concerning women's development at midlife is reviewed. Attention is given to the tendency to focus on women's reproductive roles and to frame psychosocial development in relationship to reproductive status. Such deterministic approaches are entwined with heterosexist bias. The loom of Penelope is proposed as a metaphor of women's development at midlife.

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