Age Shaming of the Aging

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 24, 2017

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, resident scholar at Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and author of Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Rutgers University Press, 2017), pushes back against what she calls the "assaults" of the negative portrayals of aging or ageism and its effects. 

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