Contextualizing older women’s body images: Time dimensions, multiple reference groups, and age codings of appearance

Krekula, Clary

doi:10.1080/08952841.2015.1013829

Cited by 18 publications

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“…It is often thought that women have more negative experiences of ageing due to societal norms (Hurd Clarke & Korotchenko, ). Krekula () challenges the idea that ageing is more painful and shameful for women than men because women are expected to live up to youthful beauty norms, and our study, like that of Jankowski et al. (), found the gender boundaries more blurred.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

A lifeworld phenomenological study of the experience of living within ageing skin

Cowdell

Galvin

2018

Nursing Inquiry

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Understanding people's experience of skin ageing as it is lived can enable sensitive approaches to promoting healthy skin and to care in general. By understanding the insider perspective, what it is like for individuals, a way to sensitise practice for more humanly sensitive care is offered. Through interviews with seventeen community-dwelling older people, the essential meaning of living within ageing skin was illuminated as a state of managed inevitability. The skin is inevitably changing, and ageing skin is a marker of change over time but the person within remains. Constituents of the phenomenon comprise the experience of unfamiliar sights and sensations given by ageing skin; facing and accepting bodily changes and seeing this back and forth in family connections; taking care of the skin "to face" the world; and to present oneself to others and a different place in the world, same person, changed body. Findings point to why and how nurses can treat older people as persons by not over emphasising a view on ageing bodies or bodies with aged skin alone, but in tempering this view with deeper existential insights, meeting the older person with a skin care need as a person and not just as a physical entity.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

A lifeworld phenomenological study of the experience of living within ageing skin

Cowdell

Galvin

2018

Nursing Inquiry

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“…To that end, I adopted the role of storyteller rather than spokesperson or social activist. I used a flexible approach to question type based on a normative flow of the conversation (Nico, 2016) in addition to probes for these open‐ended questions where appropriate (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005), such as “How so?” A topic guide of four open questions was designed based on previous research into appearance bias (Langlois et al, 2000), bodily ageing (Hurd Clarke & Griffin, 2008; Krekula, 2016), and the notion of successful ageing (Zacher, 2015). This broad basis of questioning allowed this exploratory research to “identify factors that might lead to different outcomes from seemingly similar starting points” (p. 3) (Amabile, 2019), being a reference to the relatively homogenous sample.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For older women, the body is regarded as a “problematic object” (Krekula, 2016). “Older” is a time of paradox where people can “no longer take youthful bodies for granted; changes in function and appearance mark them as no longer young” (Calasanti & King, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing menopause at work: The contradictory nature of identity talk

Steffan

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores how older women experience and manage menopause at work by asking how female workers construct their work identity around their experiences of menopause at work. Based on qualitative data from 21 women in Edinburgh, UK, findings suggest that women engaged in conflicting behaviors to manage and make sense of their menopausal bodies at work. On the one hand, women engaged in a highly resilient, neoliberal discourse around controlling and managing the symptoms at work. Conversely, data emerged reflecting a negative and self‐deprecating identity talk in how women described themselves in relation to the menopause. This article responds to the call for more nuanced empirical work on factors affecting extending working lives and experiences of menopause at work. While research output generally acknowledges the need for organizations to better understand individuals’ needs at work and not to be blinded by anti‐ageing discourses, this article recognizes that individual women themselves must also heed this advice to more effectively navigate the menopause through continued labor force participation. This article also concludes that menopause management at work must consider that individual women face their own unique cocktail of menopause symptoms, as such blanket human resources policies on their own might be inadequate to improve employment outcomes of women challenged and interrupted by the menopause.

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“…The statements above about the ageing body as a source of passion and pleasure, effectively challenge one-sided accounts of physical ageing as unilaterally problematic, something which has been especially prominent in terms of women's ageing (for a discussion, see e.g. Hurd Clarke and Korotchenko, 2011;Krekula, 2016).…”

Section: Embodied Experience Of Extended Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pleasure and time in senior dance: bringing temporality into focus in the field of ageing

Krekula

2020

Ageing and Society

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Population ageing and discourses on healthy ageing have led to a growing interest in social dancing for seniors. While senior dance has been described as both common and contributing to good health, the fundamental connection between bodily and temporal dimensions has been fairly neglected. As a result, there is a risk of portraying dance among older adults as a general practice, while at the same time the senior dance's potential to shed light on relations between temporality and ageing is not utilised. Based on qualitative interviews with 25 women and eight men, aged 52–81, in Sweden, whose main leisure activity was dancing, this article sheds light on this knowledge gap by illustrating the pleasurable experiences of senior dance. The results illustrate that the pleasurable experiences of dancing can be understood as three different experiences of temporality: embodied experience of extended present, an interaction with synchronised transcending subjectivities and age identities with unbroken temporality. The results also highlight the central role that temporal aspects play in processes around subjectivities in later life, as well as the close connection between ageing embodiment and temporality. They also illustrate the ability of dance to create wellbeing, not only through its physical elements, but also through the sociality that constitutes the core of dancing. In light of these results, the article argues that the temporal processes relate to individuals’ diverse relationship with the world and that they therefore play a central role in subjective experiences of ageing.

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Contextualizing older women’s body images: Time dimensions, multiple reference groups, and age codings of appearance

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

A lifeworld phenomenological study of the experience of living within ageing skin

A lifeworld phenomenological study of the experience of living within ageing skin

Managing menopause at work: The contradictory nature of identity talk

Pleasure and time in senior dance: bringing temporality into focus in the field of ageing

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