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Fountain of Age

Author and women’s rights activist Betty Friedan explained that her new book, The Fountain of Age, published by Simon and Schuster, describe… read more

Author and women’s rights activist Betty Friedan explained that her new book, The Fountain of Age, published by Simon and Schuster, describes “a period of human life that most people didn’t even used to have.” Ms. Friedan took an Outward Bound wilderness course for persons over 55 years of age. The course became a metaphor for searching for the “fountain of age,” rather than the fountain of youth. Through research and hundreds of interviews, she came to describe the “older years” as a new period of life for most men and women, not a time of deterioration. She found in these people a willingness to take risks, and a desire to keep learning. She said that in the U.S., the negative images of old age are even “more pernicious and more pervasive” than negative images of women. Ms. Friedan’s previous book, The Feminine Mystique, has sold millions of copies. close

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First Aired:
Nov 28, 1993 | 8:03pm EST | C-SPAN 1
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  • Nov 28, 1993 | 8:03pm EST | C-SPAN 1
  • Nov 28, 1993 | 11:03pm EST | C-SPAN 1
  • Nov 29, 1993 | 6:53am EST | C-SPAN 1
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  • Jun 29, 2002 | 1:28am EDT | C-SPAN 1
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  • Feb 09, 2006 | 1:05am EST | C-SPAN 3
  • Feb 11, 2006 | 1:05pm EST | C-SPAN 3
  • Feb 13, 2006 | 1:05am EST | C-SPAN 3
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