Playing Around : Women and Infidelity.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Content -- Part I. From Adultery to Extramarital Sex -- (1) The Spirit of the Times -- (2) Clues to the Adulterous Woman from Literature and History -- Part II. Interviewing: Marriage -- Who the Women Are -- Staying Married -- (1) Long-term Affairs -- Sylvia Shusky/I Can't Bear Loneliness -- Evelyn Clement/Just How Worthwhile Is That Self? -- (2) Sporadic Affairs -- Regina Beaudeker/Is It Just the Fact of a New Body? -- Catherine Lewyt/Maybe I'll Be President of the P.T.A. -- Sara Nicols/Am I Imitating the Behavior of Our Oppressors? -- Prudence Phillips/My Body Changed after I Turned Thirty -- (3) Romance -- Dora Rubin/The Long Life and Sad Death of a Fantasy -- (4) Brief Encounters -- Jeanette Giddings/If My Husband Only Knew -- Rita Hemp/In Those Days I Never Had Orgasms -- Amanda Greenough/If He'd Looked, He'd Have Seen No Lipstick -- Madelaine Leffert/Everyone Seemed So Frivolous in the Sun -- Betty Riesling/I Love the Game of Seduction -- Maggie Berk/I Became My Old Self Again -- Sukey Dobbs/It's Taken Me So Long to Appreciate Just Sex -- Kay Mordechai/It Was Fun and Educational -- (5) Adulterous Personalities and Adultery-Provoking Marriages -- Irene Brakhage/Two Men to Love -- Shirley Randolph/You Can Tell in Advance -- Breaking Up -- (6) Deciding to Be Alone -- Carol Battersby/Stop Teaching. Have a Baby. It'll All Be Okay -- Rose Marie Corelli/It's Always Oneself When One Says "The Kids" -- Gail O'Connor/Breaking the Crutch -- Gwen Tully/Only Crazies Would Have Come Along -- (7) Deciding to Realign -- Beverly Sneden/Most People Mourn the Death of Their Marriages -- Ann Simpson/It Wasn't Just a Case of "Her or Me" -- Barbara Bendiner/I Decided, Let Them Laugh -- (8) The Decisions of Husbands -- Claire Obrist/The Little Things Add Up -- Miriam Mindell/Affairs Seemed Wiser than Divorce.

Jolla Marshall/Making Marriage Work -- Phyllis Eanes/A Time for Negotiating -- Part III. Interviewing: Experimental Marriage -- Staying Married -- (1) Accommodators -- Amelia Furman/My Husband Would Be the Perfect Lover -- Cleo and Paul Amber/We Had a Discussion and Chose Open Marriage -- (2) Instigators -- Pamela Lewisohn/I Don't Believe in Casual Sex -- Patricia and David Dorsky/There Are All Different Kinds of Loves -- Breaking Up -- (3) Gains and Losses -- Judy Miller/Sex As the Holy Grail -- Alexandra Newman/Handmaiden -- Lydia Marks/Who Can Be Trusted When It Comes to Sex? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright Page.

Intimate, explosive, revelatory.

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