* The Study of Women in Midlife.- I * Conceptual Approaches to Midlife.- 1 * Life Events and the Boundaries of Midlife for Women.- 2 * Methods for a Life-Span Developmental Approach to Women in the Middle Years.- 3 * Middle-Aged Women in Literature.- II * Roles and Relationships.- 4 * The Middle Years: Changes and Variations in Social-Role Commitments.- 5 * Multiple Roles of Midlife Women: A Case for New Directions in Theory, Research, and Policy.- 6 * The Psychological Well-Being of Women in the Middle Years.- 7 * Social Change and Equality: The Roles of Women and Economics.- 8 * The Daughter of Aging Parents.- 9 * Motherhood in the Middle Years: Women and Their Adult Children.- 10 * Black Women in the Middle Years.- 11 * Problems of American Middle-Class Women in their Middle Years: A Comparative Approach.- III * Enhancing Well-Being.- 12 * Health Care and Midlife Women.- 13 * Reproductive Issues, Including Menopause.- 14 * The Midlife Woman as Student.- 15 * The Anxiety of the Unknown-Choice, Risk, Responsibility: Therapeutic Issues for Today's Adult Women.- 16 * Reflections and Perspectives on `Therapeutic Issues for Today's Adult Women'.- 17 * Sexuality and the Middle-Aged Woman.