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Time of our lives :Carroll, Patricia R. January 2005 (has links)
In the current Australian industrial context typified by an ageing workforce, ever increasing globalisation, industrial reform and workplace stress, retirement has become a topic of great interest for governments, institutions and individuals. For women, the years beyond paid employment have special significance as their paid work experiences are most often dissimilar from those of men, with subsequently different implications for retirement. While there is a wealth of research on the economic consequences of gendered workplaces and therefore gendered retirement, there are few if any studies of the on-going lived experiences of women retirees. This thesis is one attempt to fill this significant gap. Specifically, it tracks 21 old aged women, including myself, as we negotiate the times beyond paid employment. Beginning in the imaginings and practices of retirement taken up by time-stressed employees as responses to the promise of future liberation, the thesis traces how we as old aged women articulate our experiences within normalised notions of what being retired and old signify. / Retirement as an academic and everyday concept is constituted as the final stage of a periodised life, a transition that is linear, progressive, focuses on rational sequencing and is constituted as needing to be managed. These social and linguistic conventions are closed systems that appear to emerge from the life experiences of particular groupings: most notably white, middle-class, able-bodied men. There are few if any alternative positions available for retiring women to occupy. This thesis is one attempt to challenge such uncontested conceptions of retirement and to open spaces for womens experiences to be expressed. / My critical analysis of discourses of retirement is enabled through the use of feminist post-structuralist approaches that allow me to think beyond the unified, masculine notion of leaving paid employment, to open the phenomenon up to multiplicity and to expose our experiences of these times as embedded in wider political discourses. Utilising Foucaults ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom and Deleuze and Guattaris figurations and notions of becoming, I develop alternative ways to read the womens experiences that do not slide into traditional understandings. Rather than as successful or unsuccessful adjustment to the position of retiree, I conceive of the womens retirement practices as disciplined exercised of on-going self-reformation. / Situated as the participants are at the margins of retirement as we struggle to enact practices that maintain and honour our lives and senses of who we are and who we might become, we express the possibility of other (un)namings, other becomings that carve out spaces for an aesthetic of retired that is strange and oppositional. We as old aged women find, invent or produce new knowledges and subjectivities that open other possibilities beyond retirement as the final stage/role of a paid employment-centred life. / Through examining the lived experiences of retiring women against the grain of cultural norms I argue that retirement is an uncontested site of power relations and politics emerging out of yearnings, preparations and imaginings impelled by neo-liberal rationalities of individualised responsibility and population control. These masculinised forces attempt to draw us as old aged women back into the domesticated spaces of home as docile bodies, available, silent, invisible and generous to former workplaces, family and community. My research suggests that retirement as a space/time idea has developed within terms of patriarchal hegemony and appears to allow no space/ time for women and our experiences, aspirations or desires. However, my reading of the multiple experiences of the women participants in this study provides alternative models for understanding and living times beyond paid employment. / Thesis (PhDEducation)--University of South Australia, 2005
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The representation of older women in gerontological and women's studies research in selected psychological publications /Mehl, Anna Jean. January 1995 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-37).
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Effects of a physical exercise program on selected mood states in a group of women over age 65 /Reiter, Marion A. January 1981 (has links)
Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Kenneth J. Simon. Dissertation Committee: James L. Malfetti. Bibliography: leaves 87-92.
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Effect of moderate alcohol consumption on biochemical markers of bone turnover in postmenopausal women /Marrone, Jill. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-50). Also available on the World Wide Web.
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Untold stories : an interpretive study of older women sexually abused as children /Farris, Martha Lynne. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [319]-329).
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A case study of third-age adult women and education in Costa Rica a catalyst for social change /Eames, Kerri A. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.
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I survived. Thanks to my daughter: a study of elderly women's experience in hospitalFreeman, Amy 05 1900 (has links)
This research examined how the needs of elderly women are being met in
the hospital setting. Qualitative data were gathered through in-depth interviews
with eleven women between the ages of 70 and 93 who had had a hospital stay
in the previous year. Data analysis revealed that the system failed to attend to
participants' age specific needs. This failure created gaps in care which were
particularly troubling for elderly female patients whose frailty made them
susceptible to additional health problems. Participants received inadequate care
in such areas as bathing, walking assistance and help with eating. Hearing
impairments and denture issues were at times overlooked. These gaps in care
caused participants to view a hospital stay as a matter of survival. Participants
developed strategies to cope with gaps in care which included lowering their
expectations, developing support networks and relying on family members to
meet their basic needs and advocate on their behalf. Recommendations for
change include identifying elderly women as a vulnerable patient population and
defining the problems they face as structural issues as opposed to individual
problems. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate
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LIVED EXPERIENCES AND LIFE SATISFACTION OF CHILDFREE WOMEN IN LATE LIFEUnknown Date (has links)
The purpose of this study was to assess overall life satisfaction of older adult women who have not had children. The study explored the following questions: (1) What is the overall sense of life satisfaction of childfree women over 65? (2) What is the lived experience of being a childfree woman in U.S. society? (3) How does being childfree inform women’s overall life satisfaction? This study utilized a phenomenological research design. Fourteen childfree women over the age of 65 participated in semistructured interviews aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the sense of life satisfaction of childfree women in late life.
The study’s purpose was to look at the lived experiences of childfree older women and further understand their abilities to live fulfilled lives despite the absence of child bearing. This research explored the experiences of women without children and hopefully will inspire future research on the topic as well as inform practice regarding the unique experiences and perspectives of childfree women. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2020. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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Perceptions of the present and future: an assessment of relational experiences, social support, and personal resources by women sixty-five and olderStreff, Maureen Beirne January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University. Dept of Developmental Studies and Counseling. / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The purpose ofthis study was: (1) to examine the perceived levels of mutuality and social support in the lives of a sample of Caucasian American women and African American women 65 and older; (2) to compare their perceived levels of mutuality with already measured perceived levels of mutuality ofyounger and middle aged women; (3) to learn ifwomen 65 and older whose primary sustained commitment is to vocation, community and spiritual development experience a relational dimension; ( 4) to learn if women 65 and older who have contact with their emotionally close network of family and friends report an increase in perceived social support; and ( 5) to inform health care providers and educators of the stated needs of these women 65 and older regarding their health care.
The data sources included: a demographic information form; two valid and reliable instruments, The Mutual Psychological Development Questionnaire (MPDQ) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS); and semi structured interviews. The quantitative and qualitative data show evidence of self-perceived psychological growth in relation with others (as suggested in previous research with
younger and middle age women) as well as self- perceptions of social support. Women's heterogeneity, including their specific differences in health, education and economic status, established the necessity of focusing on the contexts of their lives. Treatment of the data included a cohort analysis because their life changes depend to a degree upon their historical circumstances and their location in the social structure. The quantitative data analysis revealed statistically significant findings: (1) The scores of the MPDQ of women 65 and older reflecting the mutuality they report experiencing with family member and friend are positively correlated with the MSPSS. (2) The women 65 and older were found to have a higher score on mutuality in the same sex dyads than do the younger and middle age women in the Genero et al. study (1992).
The qualitative component ofthe study corroborated the fmdings that themes of mutuality and social support were consistently present in this population of women 65 and older. / 2031-01-01
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Functional disability and the use of health services by elderly women with coronary heart disease /Nickel, Jennie T. January 1986 (has links)
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