Attached
is a list of books mentioned in discussion of
"what-are-we-planning-to-do-with-the-rest-of-our-lives" at Saturday's class meeting
during our 50th Reunion.
With
1960 the year "when everything changed" - ours is the first
generation privileged to experience the next decade(s) as "Fountain of
Age," "Third Chapter," "Prime Time" . . .
I am
not suggesting this list is "definitive" - but it can be a catalyst
for continuing discussion as the Class of 60 continues transformation of
"age" into "life." I am pleased to hear from you
with ideas and suggestions.
- Marcia Ruth ruthmarcia@yahoo.com
New suggestions:
Online courses on two contemporary books on women will
be on “New York Times Knowledge Network” this fall - http://www.nytimesknownow.com
Nicholas Kristof
– Half the
Sky
Pulitzer-prize winning columnist for The
New York Times, Kristoff is the keynote speaker
at Bryn Mawr’s Sept.23-25
conference: Heritage and Hope: Women’s Education in a Global
Context. Written with his wife, journalist Sheryl WuDunn,
Half the Sky is “a call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human
rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world” – combining “investigation of sex trafficking and reproductive
rights . . . [with] inspirational stories of the extraordinary women struggling
under dire circumstances.”
Gail
Collins – When
Everything Changed - For
more details, see below.
First female
editor of the editorial page of The New York Times, Gail Collins
describes “the stunning changes in the lives and status of American women over
the past 50 years,” focusing on the year of our graduation (1960) as the
time “when everything changed.”
Changes for Women since 1960
When
Everything Changed - Gail Collins (2009)
C-span Interview - After Words: Gail Collins, "When
Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present"
Gail Collins, the
first woman to hold the position of editorial page editor for the New
York Times, explores the changes in the lives of American women over
the past fifty years in her book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing
Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. Ms. Collins
denotes the differences between a time when New York City secretary Lois Rabinowitz was upbraided for wearing slacks in court to the
formation of the National Organization for Women and the presidential campaign
of Hillary Clinton. Gail Collins discusses her book with Gwen Ifill, managing editor and moderator of PBS' Washington
Week and senior correspondent for The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer. The New York Times selected When
Everything Changed as one of their notable non-fiction books of 2009.
C-span Book interview
– Changing Roles of
American Women
Women world-wide - Based on Bryn Mawr's 125th
anniversary emphasis
A book from the speaker at the upcoming fall conference - Half
the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
and Sheryl WuDunn
New Possibilities in
Later Life
The
Third Chapter - Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2009)
PBS - Bill Moyers Journal -
Interview
Fountain
of Age - Betty Friedan (1993)
NEW
Passages (revised) – Gail Sheehy (1996)
Chapter 19, “Two
Species of Aging,” plus “Note from the Author,” explaining why new edition was
needed: First thought positive change stopped at age 50!
Prime Time
- Marc Freedman (2002)
Also by Marc Friedman
– Encore and The Kindness of Strangers