Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Ph.D.

Work published elsewhere

  • ABCs for Seniors: Successful Aging Wisdom from an Outrageous Gerontologist, Hatala Geroproducts, 2006
  • Happy Birthday: A Play for Elders Acted by Elders Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Centers for Women, 2004
  • Be an outrageous older woman. New York: HarperCollins, 1997
  • Women Who Touched My Life: “A Memoir”. Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas and Trends, 1996.
  • Button Button Who has the Button?: A Drama About Women’s Lives Today. Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas and Trends, 1996
  • Living Alone Outrageously. (audiotape) Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Centers for Women, 1996
  • “His and her aging: Differences, difficulties, dilemmas, delights” Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. UNIVERSITIES PRESS INC, 1994 
  • We Speak for Peace. Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas and Trends, 1993 
  • "Expanding Social Roles for Older Women", in J. Allen and A. J. Pifer (eds.), Women on the Front Lines: Meeting the Challenge of an Aging America, University Press of America, 1993
  • “Friendships among old women”
  • Journal of Women and Aging. Vol 2 Issue 2. November 1990, pg 19-32.
  • Women, aging, and ageism ed: Evelyn Rosenthal. Haworth Press, 1990
  • Out of Their Mouths: University Elderhostel Center. Amer Studies Pr, 1988
  • Older Women: surviving and thriving: a manual for group leaders. Milwaukee, WI: Family Service America, 1987 
  • Excerpt from In Between, In the Middle: a cantata for women’s voices. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Centers for Women, 1983
  • “Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, granddaughters : personal reflections on relationships” Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women, 1982
  • “Review of Women as Widows” Contemporary Sociology, 1981
  • “Out of the mikvah, into the sauna: The role of women’s health clubs” Wellesley College, 1981 
  • “Out of the home to where?: Practical advice for counselors of displaced homemakers” Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Center for Women, 1981
  • “Hurting and healing: Poems about displaced homemakers” Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Center for Women, 1981
  • “Integrating displaced homemakers into the economy” Working paper no. 44.Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women, 1980
  • Re-engagement in later life: Re-employment and remarriage. Stamford, CT: Greylock Publishers, 1979 
  • Life after Youth: Female, Forty, What Next. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979
  • “Passing Time: Male dignity in a community for the aged” Boston University Gerontology Center, 1971
  • “Emotive and Control Groups as Mutated New American Utopian Communities” The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 7, No. 2, 234-251 (1971)
  • “Mobility Pains: A Family in Transition” The Family Coordinator, Vol 18, No. 2 pg. 129-134 (Apr 1969)
  • “One-Way Street: An Intimate View of Adjustment to a Home for the Aged” The Gerontologist, 9(4 Part 1) pg. 268-275 (1969) 

 

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