American Women — Aging

  • Everybody’s Studying Us (Number 2)

    Bea Frankel discusses San Francisco poet and playwright Irene Paull’s book “Everybody’s studying us: the ironies of aging in the Pepsi Generation.” Bea talks with two people from the California Association for Older Americans, Helen Boelke [sp?], program coordinator, and Jack Kaufman, staff writer for the Association, about the organization, why they published the book,…

  • Everywomanspace: October 4, 1982

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace episode hosted by Angela Gilliam. The fourth in a series of programs that examines provocative issues that have an impact on women and men in the human family. Guests are Jane Benedict of the Metropolitan Council on Housing and Elba Cabrera, editor of the newsletter of the Hispanic Arts Service Organization. The…

  • How terribly strange to be seventy / produced by Jan Legnitto.

    Old people in our society are treated like members of an alien race rather than as fellow human beings who have simply lived longer than the rest of us. This program explores how some of them feel about the youth culture, women’s liberation, the generation gap, politics, medicare, sex, and death. Produced by Jan Legnitto…

  • Number our days / Dr. Barbara Meyerhoff interviewed by Barbara Cady

    Dr. Barbara Meyerhoff, author of “Number our days” discusses her book about the elder Jewish community in Venice, California. The book was made into a short documentary movie, which was broadcast on television, and which won an Oscar for best documentary short subject, and an Emmy for editing. Has intro theme, but no outro theme.…

  • The OWL’s nest / Tish Sommers interviewed by Grace Jacobs

    Tish Sommers, founder of the Older Woman’s League (OWL), discusses the problems women face in later years, especially regarding employment, health care, pensions, and social security. Interviewed by Grace Jacobs. Recorded at the OWL’s nest, a home in Oakland, California, February 19, 1982.

  • Older women / produced by Viv Sutherland.

    A collection of tapes from the National Organization of Women-New York City (NY-NOW) conference entitled “The Real World of the Older Woman — How Old Am I?”, which took place June 7-8, 1975. Speakers heard on the first reel of this program include Helen Kirschner[sp?], coordinator of the Older Women’s Committee of NY-NOW; Charlotte Susskind,…

  • Women and sometimes men / Harriet Gill interviewed by Lou Hartman

    Lou Hartman talks with Harriet Gill, psychiatric social woker at Langley Porter Clinic, on the personal problems of identity confronted by persons in their 50’s and 60’s, and the difference in nature and degree between the way men and women face old age. The title of the program refers to the book “Women and sometimes…

  • Grow old with 17 million others / Clark Tibbitts interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Dr. Clark Tibbitts, Deputy director of the Special Staff on Aging, a staff agency to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, discusses the social conditions of Americans over 65 with Elsa Knight Thompson. The Special Staff on Aging is a part of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. RECORDED: 27 Sept.…

  • Is there sex after 64? / Dr. Earl Marsh and Mickey Apter ; hosted by Peggy Stein.

    A discussion that challenges the myth that, thanks to our society’s emphasis on youth and beauty, older people are uninterested in and incapable of enjoying sex, stressing the importance of touch and affection, the differences and lack of them in the sexuality of elders. The participants are Dr. Earl Marsh, gynecologist and psychiatrist and medical…