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'''Tish Sommers''' (1914-1985) was an author, a women's rights activist, and the co-founder and first President of the [[Older Women's League]]. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=HMxxespYaHAC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22first+president+of+the+older+women's+league%22&source=bl&ots=R0TzN3SvWM&sig=n4fq9vVVGG1-tdN3TEWOBdgl-UE&hl=en&ei=WfrPTrPJJ-Tm0QHF5ZA0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22first%20president%20of%20the%20older%20women's%20league%22&f=false</ref> <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false</ref> <ref>http://www.owl-national.org/pages/history</ref> <ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> Sommers was raised in Los Angeles (although born in [[Cambria]]) and |
'''Tish Sommers''' (1914-1985) was an author, a women's rights activist, and the co-founder and first President of the [[Older Women's League]]. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=HMxxespYaHAC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22first+president+of+the+older+women's+league%22&source=bl&ots=R0TzN3SvWM&sig=n4fq9vVVGG1-tdN3TEWOBdgl-UE&hl=en&ei=WfrPTrPJJ-Tm0QHF5ZA0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22first%20president%20of%20the%20older%20women's%20league%22&f=false</ref> <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false</ref> <ref>http://www.owl-national.org/pages/history</ref> <ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> Sommers was raised in Los Angeles (although born in [[Cambria]]) and was originally a dancer. <ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> 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>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced</ref> <ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> 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>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> <ref>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced</ref> Sommers coined the phrase "displaced homemaker." <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false</ref> 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>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false</ref> <ref>http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n50p/</ref> She cofounded the [[Older Women's League]] with Laurie Shields in 1980. <ref>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced</ref> She died of cancer in 1985 at age 71. <ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging</ref> Some of her papers are held as "The Tish Sommers Papers", at the Special Collections Library in San Diego State University. <ref>http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n50p/</ref> [[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>http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false</ref> 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 Tenn. Press. <ref>http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/huckle/tish.html</ref> |
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== Books == |
== Books == |
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Tish Sommers (1914-1985) was an author, a women's rights activist, and the co-founder and first President of the Older Women's League. [1] [2] [3] [4] Sommers was raised in Los Angeles (although born in Cambria) and was originally a dancer. [5] 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. [6] [7] 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. [8] [9] Sommers coined the phrase "displaced homemaker." [10] 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. [11] [12] [13] She cofounded the Older Women's League with Laurie Shields in 1980. [14] She died of cancer in 1985 at age 71. [15] Some of her papers are held as "The Tish Sommers Papers", at the Special Collections Library in San Diego State University. [16] 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. [17] 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 Tenn. Press. [18]
Books
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, by Tish Sommers (1973)
Women Take Care: The Consequences of Caregiving in Today's Society, by Tish Sommers, Laurie Shields, and the Older Women's League (Nov 1987)
References
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=HMxxespYaHAC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22first+president+of+the+older+women's+league%22&source=bl&ots=R0TzN3SvWM&sig=n4fq9vVVGG1-tdN3TEWOBdgl-UE&hl=en&ei=WfrPTrPJJ-Tm0QHF5ZA0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22first%20president%20of%20the%20older%20women's%20league%22&f=false
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false
- ^ http://www.owl-national.org/pages/history
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging
- ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging
- ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false
- ^ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n50p/
- ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-19/news/8503110529_1_tish-sommers-problems-of-older-women-divorced
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-19/business/fi-15129_1_aging
- ^ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n50p/
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22coined+the+phrase+displaced+homemaker%22&source=bl&ots=WntvqcODh3&sig=pqrcIAxJOlRRYo5KQCoIK0_ApBU&hl=en&ei=iPTPTvnfBOPy0gGN2Pgb&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22coined%20the%20phrase%20displaced%20homemaker%22&f=false
- ^ http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/huckle/tish.html