Women S Narratives Of Ageing And Care

Author : Emily Rhiannon Jeremiah,Shirley Ann Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-11-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3111042766

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Women's Narratives of Ageing and Care by Emily Rhiannon Jeremiah,Shirley Ann Jordan Pdf

Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, undervalued, and thought of as 'women's work'. Care of the old is particularly low in status and is too readily occluded. This volume asks why and how cultures of care for older people are negatively configured. It examines some of the powerful responses to relationships of intergenerational care in recent creative works by women. It thereby contributes to the contemporary imperative to transform care by investigating some of the ways in which care might be redefined and reconceptualized. Taking as its focus the representation or narrativization of care in theory, literature, visual culture, and performance, it engages with contemporary female-authored works from diverse cultural contexts, encouraging the development of comparative, cross-cultural perspectives. Narrative is key here, for it is in stories about ageing and care that the complexities and ambiguities of care relationships are made available, and that simplified ideas about them are challenged. This volume will be of interest to scholars in literary and cultural studies, gender studies, critical age studies, the medical and health humanities, and all who are interested in care.

Author : Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000536522

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Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care by Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus Pdf

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre performance, photography and music. The collection has a broad geographical scope, with case studies and primary texts from Europe and North America but also from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. The volume asks what care, autonomy and dependence may mean and how these may be inflected by social and cultural specificities. Ultimately, it invites us to reflect on our relations to others as we face the global and local challenges of care in ageing societies.

Author : Jennifer M. Hawkins,Peter M. Kellett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498592642

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Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness by Jennifer M. Hawkins,Peter M. Kellett Pdf

Through vivid and engaging narrative accounts, written and collected by women, Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness: Within and Across Their Life Stories explores how women experience the health disruptions and illnesses that span their lives. The collection examines how women’s broader and ongoing life stories impact and are impacted by health disruptions and illnesses. Organized into three parts, the chapters explore “Beginnings” in which health disruptions and illnesses impact early life, motherhood, and where early choices create the origins of health issues that impact later life; “Middles” which explores health experiences in and around middle age, or from the standpoint in middle-age looking back and forth; and “Endings” which explores narratives of ageing and end of life communication. Personal, revealing, and often beautiful, the women’s narratives featured in this book will invite the reader into the stories and lives of others, and toward the reflection, learning, and personal transformation that comes from truly connecting with the experiences of others. This book will be helpful for scholars of communication, health, women’s studies, family studies, and sociology.

Author : Karen D. Scheib
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Church work with older women
ISBN : 0827205708

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Challenging Invisibility: Practices of Care by Karen D. Scheib Pdf

Author : Pam Orzeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132146459

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Women's Narratives of Post-caregiving by Pam Orzeck Pdf

Eight million caregivers in Canada are providing care to older adults with chronic health conditions and disabilities. Many of the daily tasks which make up the role of the caregiver are undertaken by women. These women caregivers, most of whom are wives and daughters, are often profoundly affected by their caregiving role in emotional, psychological, physical, and financial ways. Thirty years of research on caregivers in general, and women caregivers in specific, have contributed to the creation of a caregiver profile which identifies the significant challenges for this population. One area which continues to be underexplored is the post-caregiving period, when caregivers transition into a period of bereavement. This period can be particularly challenging for women caregivers given the commitment inherent in the caregiving process. Research has shown that the emotional reactions of caregivers, as well as practical challenges, do not end with the death of the care-receiver. In fact, complex realities, tensions, and responses continue well after death into the post-caregiving period. This study of bereaved women caregivers explored their lived experiences in the post-caregiving phase. Using an approach informed by personological and gendered lifecourse perspectives, this narrative study enabled a rich and compelling account of women's experiences in post-caregiving as an extension of their individual caregiving trajectory. Each participant's unique story was presented as a 'careography [2] timeline', which visually represented significant events and transitions throughout the process. Three central themes emerged from within the women's stories - identity, resilience and social support. Implications for policy, research and practice were explored, with particular attention on the development of initiatives which would recognize bereavement as part of the caregiver journey and better support women caregivers during the challenging post-caregiving period. [2] Care-ography refers to a tool developed to represent the care-related biography of caregivers during the care trajectory.

Author : Martha Holstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442222885

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Women in Late Life by Martha Holstein Pdf

Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women. Author Martha Holstein writes from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on her many years of experience in gerontology, as well as interviews and personal experience as a woman now in her seventies. The book highlights how women’s experience of late life is shaped by the effects of lifelong gender norms, by contemporary culture—from gender stereotypes to ageism—and by the political context. The book blends critique with proposals aimed at resisting damaging inequities resulting from being simultaneously old and a woman. She focuses on changes needed on multiple levels—societal, cultural, political, and individual. This interdisciplinary look at key questions around gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.

Author : Elaine J Lawless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253042989

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Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives by Elaine J Lawless Pdf

Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has consistently focused her research on women’s speech in these contexts and has developed a new approach to ethnographic research which she calls "reciprocal ethnography," while growing a detailed corpus of work on women’s narrative style and expressive speech. Reciprocal ethnography is a feminist and collaborative ethnographic approach that Lawless developed as a challenge to the reflexive turn in anthropological fieldwork and research in the 1970s, which was often male-centric, ignoring the contributions by and study of women’s culture. Collected here for the first time are Lawless’s key articles on the topics of reciprocal ethnography and women’s narrative which influenced not only folklore, but also the allied fields of anthropology, sociology, performance studies, and women’s and gender studies. Lawless’s methods and research continue to be critically relevant in today’s global struggle for gender equality.

Author : Katy Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181869

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Age, Narrative and Migration by Katy Gardner Pdf

Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of ageing, sickness and finally death, in a country where they did not expect to stay and where they do not necessarily feel they belong. The ways in which they talk about and deal with this, and in particular, their ambivalence towards Britain and Bangladesh lies at the heart of the book. Centrally, the book is based around the men and womens life stories. In her analysis of these, Gardner shows how narratives play an important role in the formation of both collective and individual identity and are key domains for the articulation of gender and age. Underlying the stories that people tell, and sometimes hidden within their gaps and silences, are often other issues and concerns. Using particular idioms and narrative devices, the elders talk about the contradictions and disjunctions of transmigration, their relationship with and sometimes resistance to, the British State, and what they often present as the breakdown of traditional ways. In addition to this, the book shows that histories, stories and identity are not just narrated through words, but also through the body - an area rarely theorized in studies of migration.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350204355

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film by Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina Pdf

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Judith Worell,Carol D. Goodheart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 019803668X

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Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health by Judith Worell,Carol D. Goodheart Pdf

This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength, and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts both self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The book also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt. Lastly, it recognizes that externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence present challenges to healthy development.

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198032412

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Classic African American Women's Narratives by William L. Andrews Pdf

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the slavery era in U.S. history. Each text in the volume represents a "first." Maria Stewart's Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality (1831) was the first political tract authored by an African American woman. Jarena Lee's Life and Religious Experience (1836) was the first African American woman's spiritual autobiography. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) was the first slave narrative to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States. Frances E. W. Harper's "The Two Offers" (1859) was the first short story published by an African American woman. Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859) was the first novel written by an African American woman. Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was the first autobiography authored by an African American woman. Charlotte Forten's "Life on the Sea Islands" (1864) was the first contribution by an African American woman to a major American literary magazine (the Atlantic Monthly). Complemented with an introduction by William L. Andrews, this is the only one-volume collection to gather the most important works of the first great era of African American women's writing.

Author : Isabella Paoletti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000684599

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Older Women in Europe by Isabella Paoletti Pdf

This book is about older women’s strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing. Older women represent the great majority of older people. The book describes instances of age and gender discrimination and examples of social inclusion and protagonism of older women in Europe. It solicits a change in perspective, focusing on the necessary societal changes to make space to older people and older women in particular. How is society going to address age and gender discrimination in social and institutional settings? How should work settings change to effectively make space to older workers and in particular older women? How should the pension system change? How could public health systems could provide effective care to older people and be sustainable? This edited collection focuses on older women’s rights rather than their needs, adopting a human rights based approach. Preservation of older women’s dignity, autonomy and security is its central topic, that is, ensuring that their rights are recognised. This collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of human rights activists, professionals, policymakers and social scientists, and older women themselves.

Author : Mary McAleer Balkun,Susan C. Imbarrato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137543233

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Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire by Mary McAleer Balkun,Susan C. Imbarrato Pdf

The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early nineteenth-century United States, challenging scholars to reflect on the implications of early American literature even to the present day.

Author : Swan Burg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435078738168

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The Light of Eden, Or, A Historical Narrative of the Barbarian Age by Swan Burg Pdf

Author : Marlene Goldman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773552272

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Forgotten by Marlene Goldman Pdf

Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness is presented not as a normal consequence of aging but as an apocalyptic transformation. Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Forgotten asserts that the only crisis associated with Canada’s aging population is one of misunderstanding. Revealing that turning illness into something monstrous can have dangerous consequences, Marlene Goldman seeks to identify the political and social influences that have led to the gothic disease model and its effects on society. Examining the works of authors such as Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Jane Rule, and Caroline Adderson alongside news stories and medical and historical discussions of Alzheimer’s disease, Goldman provides an alternative, person-centred perspective to the experiences of aging and age-related dementia. Deconstructing the myths that have transformed cognitive decline into a corrosive fantasy, Forgotten establishes the pivotal role that fictional and non-fictional narratives play in cultural interpretations of disease.