Anything to Act Crazy: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras Disguise

Ware, Carolyn E.

doi:10.1353/jaf.2001.0009

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“…Others dressed provocatively in spiked heels, mesh stockings, garter belts, low necklines, red and purple wigs, and voluptuous false red lips, and danced on table tops at the formal dinner, "If not now, when?" The point is that the Red Hat Society® provides space and freedom to play with cultural norms of femininity and the aging process, unusual for women, particularly unusual for older women (Sutton-Smith, 1972;Ware, 2001).…”

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The Red Hat Society®: Exploring the Role of Play, Liminality, andCommunitasin Older Women's Lives

Yarnal

2006

Journal of Women & Aging

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There is an extensive literature on play. Yet, the role of play in older adults' lives has received limited attention. Strikingly absent is research on play and older women. Missing from the literature is how older women use play as a liminal context for social interaction and communitas. This is odd because by 2030 one in four American women will be over the age of sixty-five. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the roles of play, liminality, and communitas in older women's lives. The focus is the Red Hat Society, a social group for women over age 50 that fosters play and fun. Using qualitative interviews with focus groups and participant observation of a regional Red Hat Society event, the study highlights some of the strengths and weaknesses of current conceptualizations of play, liminality, and communitas.

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The Red Hat Society®: Exploring the Role of Play, Liminality, andCommunitasin Older Women's Lives

Yarnal

2006

Journal of Women & Aging

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Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance

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Stivale²

2004

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On and Off the Stage at Atlanta Greek Picnic: Performances of Collective Black Middle-Class Identities and the Politics of Belonging

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This dissertation presents a thick ethnography that engages in the micro-analysis of the situationality of black middle-class collective identification processes through an examination of performances by members of the nine historically black sororities and fraternities at Atlanta Greek Picnic, an annual festival that occurs at the beginning of June in Atlanta, Georgia. It mainly attracts undergraduate and graduate members of these university-based organizations, as they exist all over the United States. This exploration of black Greek-letter organization (BGLO) performances uncovers processes through which young black middle-class individuals attempt to combine two universes that are at first glance in complete opposition to each other: the domain of the traditional black middle-class values with representations and fashions stemming from black popular culture. These constructions also attempt to incorporate-in a contradiction of sortsblack popular cultural elements in the objective to deconstruct the social conservatism that characterizes middle-class values, particularly in relation to sexuality and its representation in social behaviors and performances. This negotiation between prescribed v middle-class values of respectability and black popular culture provides a space wherein black individuals challenge and/or perpetuate those dominant tropes through identity performances that feed into the formation of black sexual politics, which I examine through a variety of BGLO staged and non-staged performances.

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Anything to Act Crazy: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras Disguise

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

The Red Hat Society®: Exploring the Role of Play, Liminality, andCommunitasin Older Women's Lives

The Red Hat Society®: Exploring the Role of Play, Liminality, andCommunitasin Older Women's Lives

Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance

On and Off the Stage at Atlanta Greek Picnic: Performances of Collective Black Middle-Class Identities and the Politics of Belonging

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