<i>The Feminine Mystique</i>: sexual excess and the pre-political housewife

Miller, Meredith

doi:10.1080/09574040500045573

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“…The cohort of women sampled in the current study experienced the emergence of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s (Epstein, 1990;Miller, 2005) when they were young adults and witnessed the beginnings of a societal shift in the willingness of women to accept conventional gender standards of the time. Thus, the participants in this study were part of an initial cohort of young women who began to question gender stereotypes they regarded as outdated.…”

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The Nature and Meaning of Identity in Retired Professional Women

Borrero

Kruger

2015

Journal of Women & Aging

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Through this study we sought to understand the complex experience of retirement and the meaning of identity for women who recently retired from a professional career. Through the use of qualitative methods, including photo elicitation, journaling, and a series of two in-depth interviews with each of six women, a fluid description of the meaning of identity among a small, homogenous sample of retired professional women was constructed. Salient themes included consistency of significant identity components from work to retirement, importance of social connectedness, engagement in continued learning; involvement in aspects of former work roles, and the importance of helping others.

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The Nature and Meaning of Identity in Retired Professional Women

Borrero

Kruger

2015

Journal of Women & Aging

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“…In fact, similar strategies are being adopted by Chinese women in Hong Kong. The destabilizing effect of the breakouts (Burns and Leonard 2005) and minor transgressions of middle-aged married women that are apparently invisible (Ho 2006, Miller 2005Tsang and Ho 2007) must be further explored.…”

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Eternal Mothers or Flexible Housewives? Middle-aged Chinese Married Women in Hong Kong

2007

Sex Roles

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How do Hong Kong Chinese women position themselves in relation to this stigmatized social category of "si-nai" (middle aged-housewives) and the prevailing norms and values regarding women's roles? The case of middleaged, married women in Hong Kong provides empirical support for an alternative understanding of the identity of adult woman and helps to problematize conceptualizations of women's identity as centered on their mother roles. The narratives of these twenty-six women show the fluidity of their roles as mothers (and wives). These roles change with reference to social context, life circumstances, and life course. Many middle-aged women have tried to resist becoming "mad housewives" and have learnt to be "flexible housewives" by actively decentering their role as mothers.

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“…The wishes and dreams of these women are 'the products of everyday individuals who still reside in the interstices of institutional technologies and in some of the more unofficial networks of everyday life' (Burkitt, 2004: 219). The discontent of heterosexual women (Miller, 2005) and the nonnormative forms of desire that renders some desires impossible to speak coherently (Valentine, 2003) must not be overlooked.…”

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Lost in Translation: Sex and Sexuality in Elite Discourse and Everyday Language

Tsang

2007

Sexualities

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This article questions our own use of language in representing, articulating, and communicating Chinese-speaking people's experiences associated with the words `sex' and `sexuality' in the English language. We notice that whenever the elite discourse fails to fully represent the lived experiences of `the people', their own utterances will demonstrate the creative and subversive potentials of the everyday language. Our research has transformed our understanding of an ever-evolving domain we once tried to capture with the western language of sexuality, and led us to rethink our theoretical positions and methods. We finally arrive at a better understanding of the value and significance of research that engages with people's articulation of their lived experience that might contradict our original position, assumptions and arguments. We wish to caution against the unquestioned privileging of elite discourses produced and distributed from sites of power, and the risk of theoretical imperialism.

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The Feminine Mystique: sexual excess and the pre-political housewife

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

The Nature and Meaning of Identity in Retired Professional Women

The Nature and Meaning of Identity in Retired Professional Women

Eternal Mothers or Flexible Housewives? Middle-aged Chinese Married Women in Hong Kong

Lost in Translation: Sex and Sexuality in Elite Discourse and Everyday Language

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