Nan Bauer-Maglin was formerly a professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and academic director of the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. She is the coeditor of ""Bad Girls/Good Girls": Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties" (with Donna Perry), "Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide, " and "Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women on the End of Their (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships" (Rutgers University Press).