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Connections between women's unpaid family work and their family relationships : a feminist analysis

Creator:: McGraw, Lori A.
Abstract:: Women have long been responsible for the unpaid and under-recognized work of maintaining homes and family relationships (Walker, 1999). In this dissertation, I use feminist theories to address the connections between women's unpaid family work and their family relationships. I explore family ties between (a) aging mothers and their care...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

How women negotiate family responsibilities and personal health

Creator:: Ourada, Verna E. Zehner
Abstract:: Women’s health affects women and society as a whole. In addition to paid employment, women provide unpaid labor as they care for their families, their homes, and ailing relatives. Only by staying healthy can women provide care to their families. Using a feminist perspective, this study examined how women manage...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: How Women Negotiate Family Responsibility and Personal Health

Recounting, rethinking, and reclaiming menstruation

Creator:: Ashford, Teresa L.
Abstract:: I assessed influences on women's attitudes toward and experiences with menarche and menstruation using feminist qualitative methodologies. Bronfenbrenner's ecological model interpreted through a feminist lens was the organizing framework for the study, focusing as it does on the sociohistorical and multilayered context wherein the women developed. Fourteen college women between...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: women developed. Fourteen college women between the ages of 18 and 25 completed the Menstrual Attitude

Perceptions of reciprocity and relationship quality among elderly female nonkin peers

Creator:: Martin, Sally S.
Abstract:: There is increasing recognition of the importance of older adults in providing support to and maintaining relationships with their nonkin peers. Social trends, such as smaller family size, may reduce the role of family members and increase the importance of nonkin peers in providing help to the elderly. Relationships with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: volunteer sample of 62 women over 60 years of age participated in interviews tapping help given and

Amount of care given by daughters and perceived relationship quality with care-receiving mothers

Creator:: Evans, Lorina S.
Abstract:: The relationship between mothers and daughters has been shown to be generally positive and strong throughout the life cycle. The relationship may become strained, however, as mothers become dependent due to deteriorating health or chronic health conditions. It has long been recognized in both the gerontological and intergenerational literatures that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: period. They found that women (wives) initially reported being more burdened than men (husbands) at

Marital status, gender, and determinants of subjective well-being in unmarried older adults

Creator:: Bratten, John Michael
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: variable was expected to best predict well-being for never-married older men and all unmarried older women

Informal social support and attrition among nonpartnered, rurally-located, poor mothers

Creator:: Amity, Frederica A.
Abstract:: This qualitative study used interview transcripts to find clues to attrition from a longitudinal study among nonpartnered, rurally-located, poor mothers, a generally vulnerable population with characteristics commonly associated with attrition (low-income, low levels of educational attainment, and rural location). Drawing on Rural Families Speak data, the author used the number...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Social Support and Poor Rural Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Coresidence

Linking generations : the family legacies of older Armenian mothers

Creator:: Manoogian, Margaret M.
Abstract:: Families stay connected over time through the intergenerational transmission of legacies. Legacies help family members to articulate family identity, learn more about family history, and provide succeeding generations with information about family culture and ethnicity. This qualitative study examines how older mothers transmit family meanings, history, and culture to family...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to others. Women viewed their legacies within the context of motherhood and worked to ensure that

The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with caregiving for daughters

Creator:: Alger, Georgina
Abstract:: Decreasing mortality rates and increasing life expectancy are contributing factors in a trend currently referred to as the "graying" of America. Some members of this aging population will require caregiving support from their families. Because women tend to outlive men, adult daughters generally assume this important role for their widowed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: aging population will require caregiving support from their families. Because women tend to outlive

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Connections between women's unpaid family work and their family relationships : a feminist analysis

How women negotiate family responsibilities and personal health

Recounting, rethinking, and reclaiming menstruation

Perceptions of reciprocity and relationship quality among elderly female nonkin peers

Amount of care given by daughters and perceived relationship quality with care-receiving mothers

Marital status, gender, and determinants of subjective well-being in unmarried older adults

Informal social support and attrition among nonpartnered, rurally-located, poor mothers

Linking generations : the family legacies of older Armenian mothers

The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with caregiving for daughters

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