Older Women: Redefining Well-Being

— Lifespan feminism is tied to something else we very much need right now: a bridge feminism among girls and women of different generations that links us together in a common cause to confront the unfinished business of the women's movement.

Valeria Teles interviews Susan J. Douglas — the author of "In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead."

Susan J. Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Communication and Media, and former department chair, at The University of Michigan. She is the author of the acclaimed In Our Prime: How Older Women are Reinventing the Road Ahead (Norton, 2020), an "Editors' Choice/Staff Picks" by the New York Times; Celebrity: A History of Fame (NYU Press, with Andrea McDonnell, 2019); The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010); The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Undermines Women (with Meredith Michaels, The Free Press, 2004); Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (Times Books, 1999), which won the Hacker Prize in 2000 for the best popular book about technology and culture; Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (Times Books, 1994; Penguin, 1995) and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins, 1987). She received her B.A. from Elmira College (Phi Beta Kappa) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University. She has lectured at colleges and universities around the country, and has written for the New York Times, The Nation, In These Times, The Village Voice, Ms., The Washington Post and TV Guide, and was media critic for The Progressive from 1992-1998. Her column "Back Talk" appeared monthly in In These Times until 2017. She has appeared on The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Working Woman, CNBC's Equal Time, NPR's Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know and various radio talk shows around the country. Where the Girls Are was widely praised, and chosen one of the top ten books of 1994 by National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly and The McLaughlin Group.

To learn more about Susan J. Douglas and her work, please visit: susanjdouglas.com

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.