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| caption = Tish Sommers, from a 1982 newspaper |
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| other_names = Letitia Burke, Letitia Sommers |
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| birth_name = Letitia Gale Innes |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|09|08}} |
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| birth_place = [[Cambria, California|Cambria]], California |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|10|18|1914|09|08}} |
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| death_place = [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], California |
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| occupation = Activist, writer |
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Sommers was raised in Los Angeles and was originally a dancer.<ref name=latimes1985 /> After she visited Nazi Germany in 1933 to study dance and saw the suffering of the Jewish people, she became an activist; in the 1950s she was a volunteer for social and civil rights causes in the South.<ref name=latimes1985 /><ref name=chicagotribune1985 /> With the help of her friend Laurie Shields, she successfully lobbied 39 states and Congress to pass displaced-homemaker laws, which offered a network of job training and counseling centers for career housewives who went through divorce or the death of a husband.<ref name=latimes1985 /><ref name=chicagotribune1985 /> Sommers coined the phrase "displaced homemaker."<ref name=Love2006 /> She chaired the [[National Organization for Women]]'s Task Force on older women in the 1970s (it was formed in 1973); she was also a NOW Board member and led the Jobs for Older Women Action Project.<ref name=Love2006 /><ref name=latimes1985 /><ref name=cdlib1 /> She cofounded the [[Older Women's League]] with Laurie Shields in 1980.<ref name=chicagotribune1985 /> She died of cancer in 1985 at age 71.<ref name=latimes1985 /> Some of her papers are held as "The Tish Sommers Papers", at the Special Collections Library in San Diego State University.<ref name=cdlib1 /> [[The Institute for Health and Aging]] established the Tish Sommers Senior Scholars program to honor her; it supports the work of older graduate and postdoctoral students working to improve the lives of older women.<ref name=Love2006 /> In 1991, a biography of her was published titled ''Tish Sommers, Activist: and the Founding of the Older Women's League'', by Patricia Huckle, Univ. of Tennessee Press.<ref name=Rohan.sdsu.edu /> |
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== Early life and education == |
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== Bibliography == |
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Letitia Gale Innes was born in [[Cambria, California]] and raised in San Francisco, the daughter of Murray Innes and Katherine Dorsch Innes.<ref name="latimes1985" /> Her father was a mining engineer, and her mother was a teacher.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 3, 1904 |title=Formal Normal Student Married |work=Chico Record |url=https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2021/86/180247720_5babd4a0-5292-417b-ae4a-24316b65819e.jpeg |access-date=January 6, 2023}}</ref> She studied dance as a young woman, including three years in Germany in the 1930s. She attended the [[University of California, Los Angeles]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Levenstein |first=L. |date=2014-03-01 |title="Don't Agonize, Organize!": The Displaced Homemakers Campaign and the Contested Goals of Postwar Feminism |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jahist/jau007 |journal=Journal of American History |language=en |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=1114–1138 |doi=10.1093/jahist/jau007 |issn=0021-8723}}</ref> |
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== Career and activism == |
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''Women Take Care: The Consequences of Caregiving in Today's Society'', by Tish Sommers, Laurie Shields, and the Older Women's League (Nov 1987) |
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During [[World War II]], Innes worked in the parks department in Los Angeles.<ref name=":0" /> In 1945 she directed a youth theatrical production in Los Angeles with over 150 youth participants,<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 14, 1945 |title=Hollenbeck to Present War Chest Show |pages=8 |work=Daily News |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19450814.1.8&srpos=5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Letitia+Innes------- |access-date=January 7, 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> and chaired the program for a "thanksgiving harvest festival" in the city.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Thanks festival set tomorrow |pages=16 |work=Daily News |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19451120.1.16&srpos=6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Letitia+Innes------- |access-date=January 7, 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> In the 1950s, Sommers and her second husband worked for social and civil rights causes in the South.<ref name="latimes1985" /><ref name="chicagotribune1985" /> |
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In the 1970s, Sommers became focused on feminist issues, especially involving older women.<ref name=":0" /> With the help of her friend Laurie Shields, she successfully lobbied 39 states and Congress to pass displaced homemaker laws,<ref>{{Cite news |last=McCormack |first=Patricia |date=September 4, 1975 |title=Tish Sommers lobbies for Displaced Homemaker's act |pages=C-17 |work=San Bernardino Sun |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19750904.1.47&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Tish+Sommers------- |access-date=January 6, 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> which offered a network of job training and counseling centers for career housewives who went through divorce or the death of a husband.<ref name="latimes1985" /><ref name="chicagotribune1985" /> Sommers coined the phrase "displaced homemaker."<ref name="Love2006" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=DeLuzio |first=Crista |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBdPbif6cO0C&dq=Tish+Sommers&pg=PA196 |title=Women's Rights: People and Perspectives: People and Perspectives |date=2009-11-12 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-115-2 |pages=196 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shields |first=Laurie |url=http://archive.org/details/displacedhomemak00shie |title=Displaced homemakers : organizing for a new life |date=1981 |publisher=New York : McGraw-Hill |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-07-056802-0 |pages=ix}}</ref> |
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Sommers chaired the [[National Organization for Women]]'s task force on older women in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 24, 1975 |title=Ageism, sexism; They call it double jeopardy |pages=B-2 |work=Healdsburg Tribune |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19750424.2.91&srpos=4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Tish+Sommers------- |access-date=January 6, 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> She was also a NOW board member and led the Jobs for Older Women Action Project.<ref name="Love2006" /><ref name="latimes1985" /><ref name="cdlib1" /> She co-founded the [[Older Women's League]] with Laurie Shields in 1980, and was its first president.<ref name="Borenstein1983" /><ref name="chicagotribune1985" /> |
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Sommers was named one of the "Bay Area's Ten Most Distinguished Persons" by the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' in 1974. She testified before a Senate committee on aging and [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] in 1975.<ref>{{Cite book |last=United States Congress Senate Special Committee on Aging |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sh1DAQAAMAAJ&dq=Tish+Sommers&pg=PA1679 |title=Future directions in social security: hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, first session ... |date=1973 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=1679–1682 |language=en}}</ref> She won the Western Gerontological Society Award in 1979, and the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation's Ministry to Women Award in 1981. In 1982, already facing a cancer diagnosis, she was keynote speaker at a conference on employment at [[Sonoma State University]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 3, 1982 |title=Conference to Explore American Workplace |pages=7 |work=Healdsburg Tribune |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19820303.2.32&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Tish+Sommers------- |access-date=January 6, 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> In 1983, she testified before a Congressional hearing on [[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]] and aging.<ref>{{Cite book |last=United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MntapV8sk4UC&dq=Tish+Sommers&pg=PA46 |title=Medicare and Acupuncture: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, November 30, 1983, San Francisco, Calif |date=1984 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=46–51 |language=en}}</ref> In 1984, she once again spoke before a Congressional committee on aging and healthcare.<ref>{{Cite book |last=United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-YUaAAAAMAAJ&dq=Tish+Sommers&pg=PA17 |title=Health Care for Elders: Alternative Futures : Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 18, 1984, Anaheim, Calif |date=1984 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=17–22 |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Publications == |
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* "Freelance Agitator Argues for Hiring Changes: Look Out Job Market!" (1978)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sommers |first=Tish |date=1978 |title=Freelance Agitator Argues for Hiring Changes: Look Out Job Market! |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44872266 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=8–9 |jstor=44872266 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> |
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* "If We Could Write the Script..." (1980)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sommers |first=Tish |date=1980 |title=If We Could Write The Script... |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44875007 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=7–35 |jstor=44875007 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> |
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* "If I Had a Billion..." (1981)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sommers |first=Tish |date=1981 |title=If I Had a Billion . . . |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44875061 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=11–33 |jstor=44875061 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> |
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* "Caregiving: A Woman's Issue" (1985)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sommers |first=Tish |date=1985 |title=Caregiving: A Woman's Issue |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44875293 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=9–13 |jstor=44875293 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> |
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* "Three Caregivers Tell Their Stories: Seriously Near the Breaking Point" (1985)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sommers |first1=Tish |last2=Zarit |first2=Steven H. |date=1985 |title=Three Caregivers Tell Their Stories: Seriously Near the Breaking Point |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44875298 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=30–33 |jstor=44875298 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> |
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* ''Women Take Care: The Consequences of Caregiving in Today's Society'' (1987, with Laurie Shields)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sommers |first=Tish |url=http://archive.org/details/womentakecarecon0000somm |title=Women take care : the consequences of caregiving in today's society |date=1987 |publisher=Gainesville, Fla. : Triad Pub. Co. |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-937404-28-7}}</ref> |
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== Personal life and legacy == |
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Innes married Sidney Arnold Burke in 1938; they later divorced. She married fellow activist Joseph Sommers in 1949; they adopted a son, and divorced in 1972.<ref name=":0" /> "Undoubtedly the divorce was, in part, my own awakening," she later recalled.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sommers |first1=Tish |last2=Sorrel |first2=Lorraine |last3=Sojourner |first3=Susan |date=1982 |title=with the wisdom of an owl: an interview with tish sommers |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25774188 |journal=Off Our Backs |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=6–7 |jstor=25774188 |issn=0030-0071}}</ref> Sommers died from cancer in 1985 at the age of 71, in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]].<ref name="latimes1985" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1985-10-19 |title=Tish Sommers Dies; Led Older Women's Union |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/19/us/tish-sommers-dies-led-older-women-s-union.html |access-date=2023-01-07 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Some of her papers are held in the [[San Diego State University]] Libraries.<ref name="cdlib1" /> The Institute for Health and Aging at the [[University of California, San Francisco]] established the Tish Sommers Senior Scholars program to honor her; it supports the work of older graduate and postdoctoral students working to improve the lives of older women.<ref>{{Cite book |last=University of California, San Francisco |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvM2AQAAMAAJ&dq=Tish+Sommers&pg=RA26-PA9 |title=UCSF News |date=June 10, 1993 |publisher= |language=en}}</ref> In 1991, a biography of her was published, titled ''Tish Sommers, Activist: and the Founding of the Older Women's League''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Huckle |first=Patricia |url=http://archive.org/details/tishsommersactiv0000huck |title=Tish Sommers, activist, and the founding of the Older Women's League |date=1991 |publisher=Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-87049-691-2}}</ref> |
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<ref name=Borenstein1983 >{{Cite book | last=Borenstein | first=Audrey | year=1983 | title=Chimes of change and hours: views of older women in twentieth-century America | publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press | isbn=978-0-8386-3170-6 | pages=41–42 | url= |
<ref name=Borenstein1983 >{{Cite book | last=Borenstein | first=Audrey | year=1983 | title=Chimes of change and hours: views of older women in twentieth-century America | publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press | isbn=978-0-8386-3170-6 | pages=41–42 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMxxespYaHAC}}</ref> |
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<ref name=chicagotribune1985>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced |title=Tish Sommers, 71, Women's Activist |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=1985-10-19 |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
<ref name=chicagotribune1985>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced |title=Tish Sommers, 71, Women's Activist |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=1985-10-19 |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
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<ref name=latimes1985>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging |title=Tish Sommers | Older Women's Advocate Dies at 71: Tish Sommers Was Co-Founder of 15,000-Member Group | |
<ref name=latimes1985>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging |title=Tish Sommers | Older Women's Advocate Dies at 71: Tish Sommers Was Co-Founder of 15,000-Member Group |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1985-10-19 |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
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<ref name=Love2006 >{{Cite book | last=Love | first=Barbara J. | year=2006 | title=Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975 | publisher=University of Illinois Press | isbn=978-0-252-03189-2 | pages= |
<ref name=Love2006 >{{Cite book | last=Love | first=Barbara J. | year=2006 | title=Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975 | publisher=University of Illinois Press | isbn=978-0-252-03189-2 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/feministswhochan00love/page/434 434]–435 | url=https://archive.org/details/feministswhochan00love | url-access=registration |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
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<ref name=cdlib1>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n50p/ |title=Tish Sommers Papers |publisher=Online Archive of California |date= |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
<ref name=cdlib1>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n50p/ |title=Tish Sommers Papers |publisher=Online Archive of California |date= |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
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<ref name=Rohan.sdsu.edu>{{cite web|url=http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/huckle/tish.html |title=International Women's Movements |publisher=Rohan.sdsu.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
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== External links == |
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* [[iarchive:cus 000044|A 1982 video interview with Tish Sommers]] from [[KPBS (TV)|KPBS]] television, on Internet Archive |
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Latest revision as of 19:09, 16 March 2024
Tish Sommers | |
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Born | Letitia Gale Innes September 8, 1914 Cambria, California |
Died | October 18, 1985 Oakland, California | (aged 71)
Other names | Letitia Burke, Letitia Sommers |
Occupation(s) | Activist, writer |
Letitia "Tish" Innes Sommers (September 8, 1914 – October 18, 1985) was an American author, women's rights activist, and the co-founder and first president of the Older Women's League (OWL).[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Letitia Gale Innes was born in Cambria, California and raised in San Francisco, the daughter of Murray Innes and Katherine Dorsch Innes.[3] Her father was a mining engineer, and her mother was a teacher.[4] She studied dance as a young woman, including three years in Germany in the 1930s. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles.[5]
Career and activism
During World War II, Innes worked in the parks department in Los Angeles.[5] In 1945 she directed a youth theatrical production in Los Angeles with over 150 youth participants,[6] and chaired the program for a "thanksgiving harvest festival" in the city.[7] In the 1950s, Sommers and her second husband worked for social and civil rights causes in the South.[3][8]
In the 1970s, Sommers became focused on feminist issues, especially involving older women.[5] With the help of her friend Laurie Shields, she successfully lobbied 39 states and Congress to pass displaced homemaker laws,[9] which offered a network of job training and counseling centers for career housewives who went through divorce or the death of a husband.[3][8] Sommers coined the phrase "displaced homemaker."[2][10][11]
Sommers chaired the National Organization for Women's task force on older women in the 1970s.[12] She was also a NOW board member and led the Jobs for Older Women Action Project.[2][3][13] She co-founded the Older Women's League with Laurie Shields in 1980, and was its first president.[1][8]
Sommers was named one of the "Bay Area's Ten Most Distinguished Persons" by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1974. She testified before a Senate committee on aging and Social Security in 1975.[14] She won the Western Gerontological Society Award in 1979, and the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation's Ministry to Women Award in 1981. In 1982, already facing a cancer diagnosis, she was keynote speaker at a conference on employment at Sonoma State University.[15] In 1983, she testified before a Congressional hearing on Medicare and aging.[16] In 1984, she once again spoke before a Congressional committee on aging and healthcare.[17]
Publications
- The not-so-helpless female: How to change the world even if you never thought you could; A step-by-step guide to social action (1973)
- "Freelance Agitator Argues for Hiring Changes: Look Out Job Market!" (1978)[18]
- "If We Could Write the Script..." (1980)[19]
- "If I Had a Billion..." (1981)[20]
- "Caregiving: A Woman's Issue" (1985)[21]
- "Three Caregivers Tell Their Stories: Seriously Near the Breaking Point" (1985)[22]
- Women Take Care: The Consequences of Caregiving in Today's Society (1987, with Laurie Shields)[23]
Personal life and legacy
Innes married Sidney Arnold Burke in 1938; they later divorced. She married fellow activist Joseph Sommers in 1949; they adopted a son, and divorced in 1972.[5] "Undoubtedly the divorce was, in part, my own awakening," she later recalled.[24] Sommers died from cancer in 1985 at the age of 71, in Oakland.[3][25] Some of her papers are held in the San Diego State University Libraries.[13] The Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco established the Tish Sommers Senior Scholars program to honor her; it supports the work of older graduate and postdoctoral students working to improve the lives of older women.[26] In 1991, a biography of her was published, titled Tish Sommers, Activist: and the Founding of the Older Women's League.[27]
References
- ^ a b Borenstein, Audrey (1983). Chimes of change and hours: views of older women in twentieth-century America. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 978-0-8386-3170-6.
- ^ a b c Love, Barbara J. (2006). Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press. pp. 434–435. ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ a b c d e f "Tish Sommers | Older Women's Advocate Dies at 71: Tish Sommers Was Co-Founder of 15,000-Member Group". Los Angeles Times. 1985-10-19. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ "Formal Normal Student Married". Chico Record. May 3, 1904. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Levenstein, L. (2014-03-01). ""Don't Agonize, Organize!": The Displaced Homemakers Campaign and the Contested Goals of Postwar Feminism". Journal of American History. 100 (4): 1114–1138. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau007. ISSN 0021-8723.
- ^ "Hollenbeck to Present War Chest Show". Daily News. August 14, 1945. p. 8. Retrieved January 7, 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "Thanks festival set tomorrow". Daily News. p. 16. Retrieved January 7, 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ a b c "Tish Sommers, 71, Women's Activist". Chicago Tribune. 1985-10-19. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ McCormack, Patricia (September 4, 1975). "Tish Sommers lobbies for Displaced Homemaker's act". San Bernardino Sun. pp. C-17. Retrieved January 6, 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ DeLuzio, Crista (2009-11-12). Women's Rights: People and Perspectives: People and Perspectives. ABC-CLIO. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-59884-115-2.
- ^ Shields, Laurie (1981). Displaced homemakers : organizing for a new life. Internet Archive. New York : McGraw-Hill. pp. ix. ISBN 978-0-07-056802-0.
- ^ "Ageism, sexism; They call it double jeopardy". Healdsburg Tribune. April 24, 1975. pp. B-2. Retrieved January 6, 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ a b "Tish Sommers Papers". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ United States Congress Senate Special Committee on Aging (1973). Future directions in social security: hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, first session ... U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 1679–1682.
- ^ "Conference to Explore American Workplace". Healdsburg Tribune. March 3, 1982. p. 7. Retrieved January 6, 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging (1984). Medicare and Acupuncture: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, November 30, 1983, San Francisco, Calif. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 46–51.
- ^ United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging (1984). Health Care for Elders: Alternative Futures : Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 18, 1984, Anaheim, Calif. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 17–22.
- ^ Sommers, Tish (1978). "Freelance Agitator Argues for Hiring Changes: Look Out Job Market!". Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. 2 (4): 8–9. ISSN 0738-7806. JSTOR 44872266.
- ^ Sommers, Tish (1980). "If We Could Write The Script..." Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. 4 (4): 7–35. ISSN 0738-7806. JSTOR 44875007.
- ^ Sommers, Tish (1981). "If I Had a Billion . . ". Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. 6 (2): 11–33. ISSN 0738-7806. JSTOR 44875061.
- ^ Sommers, Tish (1985). "Caregiving: A Woman's Issue". Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. 10 (1): 9–13. ISSN 0738-7806. JSTOR 44875293.
- ^ Sommers, Tish; Zarit, Steven H. (1985). "Three Caregivers Tell Their Stories: Seriously Near the Breaking Point". Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. 10 (1): 30–33. ISSN 0738-7806. JSTOR 44875298.
- ^ Sommers, Tish (1987). Women take care : the consequences of caregiving in today's society. Internet Archive. Gainesville, Fla. : Triad Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-937404-28-7.
- ^ Sommers, Tish; Sorrel, Lorraine; Sojourner, Susan (1982). "with the wisdom of an owl: an interview with tish sommers". Off Our Backs. 12 (1): 6–7. ISSN 0030-0071. JSTOR 25774188.
- ^ "Tish Sommers Dies; Led Older Women's Union". The New York Times. 1985-10-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
- ^ University of California, San Francisco (June 10, 1993). UCSF News.
- ^ Huckle, Patricia (1991). Tish Sommers, activist, and the founding of the Older Women's League. Internet Archive. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-691-2.
External links
- A 1982 video interview with Tish Sommers from KPBS television, on Internet Archive