Adventures of Older Women

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 15, 2019

With age an issue in the 2020 campaign, Gail Collins, New York Times op-ed columnist and the author of No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), explores how older American women have been viewed throughout our history, including the fact that hair dye gained in popularity with the rise of feminism, but that women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton used their gray hair as an entry into activism.

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