Leisure in the Lives of Old Lesbians: Experiences with and Responses to Discrimination

Jacobson, Sharon; Samdahl, Diane M.

doi:10.1080/00222216.1998.11949828

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“…They also highlighted how the women were able to create supportive networks to escape from and resist homophobic and agist attitudes, however, which is a finding consistent with feminist leisure researchers' argument that leisure can be a context for resistance (e.g., Wearing, 1998). While Jacobson and Samdahl's (1998) study examined the ways old lesbians created private leisure spaces, this study highlights the ways in which an all-women's group-with the safety of the granny mask-enabled the study participants to resist devaluing social discourses associated with being older women.…”

Section: Social Activism and Healthmentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Ideologies associated both with what it means to be a woman and to be old have the potential to place formidable constraints on what is considered "acceptable" leisure behavior of older women (Wearing, 1995). For example, Jacobson and Samdahl (1998) documented how public leisure settings were painful sources of stigma and discrimination for old lesbians. They also highlighted how the women were able to create supportive networks to escape from and resist homophobic and agist attitudes, however, which is a finding consistent with feminist leisure researchers' argument that leisure can be a context for resistance (e.g., Wearing, 1998).…”

Section: Social Activism and Healthmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Is “Raging” Good for Health?: Older Women's Participation in the Raging Grannies

Hutchinson

Wexler

2007

Health Care for Women International

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We explore the meanings and potential health-related benefits of older women's participation in the Raging Grannies, a voluntary activist organization. The group's activities are focused on social and political protest while also challenging stereotypes about aging women. Drawing on qualitative interview and focus group data, we employed empowerment theory as a means to examine the ways in which participation in the Raging Grannies contributed to older women's personal empowerment. Results were constructed around four key themes: (1) personal and social factors influencing involvement in the Raging Grannies; (2) leisure as a context for "raging," (3) empowering processes within the Raging Grannies, and (4) empowering outcomes resulting from participation.

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Section: Social Activism and Healthmentioning

confidence: 58%

Section: Social Activism and Healthmentioning

confidence: 97%

Is “Raging” Good for Health?: Older Women's Participation in the Raging Grannies

Hutchinson

Wexler

2007

Health Care for Women International

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“…Leisure and gender issues, of course, began to grab attention and leveled significant challenges to assumptions about the benevolence of leisure (see, for instance, Bray, 1988). Since then, feminist theorizing and research has clearly led the way for this kind of undertaking (see, for instance, Henderson et al, 1989;Henderson, 1996;Jacobson& Samdahl, 1998;Parry & Shaw, 1999;Shaw, 1994). Work in this realm is dedicated to asking why leisure cannot be, or is not, at the forefront of generating social change.…”

Section: Leisure Research: Understanding and Fostering Social Changementioning

confidence: 96%

Leisure research and social change: A millennial state of the art

Mair¹,

Reid

2007

Leisure/Loisir

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This paper reports on an effort by the authors to engender debate about the state of leisure research. We seek to respond to those in the field who have challenged us to think about whether our research and practice is actively engaging issues of social change. To do this, we developed an analytical framework based upon the major tenets of critical theory and used it to evaluate the abstracts from four leisure research journals from 2000-2004. By presenting our framework and evaluation criteria, we are in no way judging the quality of these articles or their respective journals. We are, however, seeking to provoke discussion about the direction of the field as we present the results of our assessment and offer suggestions for further evaluations and possible directions for future research.Résumé. Cet article tien compte d'un effort par les auteurs d'engendrer la discussion au sujet de l'état de la recherche en loisirs et le changement social. En relevant ce défi nous cherchons à répondre à deux questions souvent posé. Est-ce que notre recherche est pratique? Encourage tel le changement social? Pour répondre à ces questions, nous avons développé un cadre analytique basé sur les principes principaux de la théorie critique et nous l'avons appliqué à une évaluation de quatre journaux de recherches de loisirs entre 2000-2004. En présentant nos critères d'évaluation, nous ne jugeons nullement la qualité de ces articles ou de leurs journaux respectifs. Nous cherchons cependant, à provoquer une discussion au sujet de la direction du champ pendant que nous pré-sentons les résultats de notre évaluation, et nous suggérons d'autres possibilités de recherche.

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“…In fact, of the 28 articles reviewed for this study, we found that 14 used the terminology older (Bayliss, 2000;Comerford, Henson-Stroud, Sionainn, & Wheeler, 2004;Fullmer et al, 1999;Hall & Fine, 2005;Hash & Netting, 2009;Jacobson, 1995;Jones & Nystrom, 2002;Neustifter, 2008;Parks & Hughes, 2007;Pettinato, 2008;Richard & Brown, 2006;Shenk & Fullmer, 1996;Wojciechowski, 1998;Zaritsky & Dibble, 2010). Six articles used the term old (Barnes, 2005;Cruikshank, 2008;Drumm, 2004;Healey, 1994;Jacobson & Samdahl, 1998;Lev, 2009), three articles used aging or ageing (Phillips & Marks, 2008;Thompson, Brown, Cassidy, & Gentry, 1999;Tully, 1989), one used elder (Goldberg et al, 2005), one used elderly (Healy, 2002), one referred to their 50-to 60-year-old participants as later midlife (Finnegan & McNally, 2000) and another stated their participants were late middle age and old (Butler & Hope, 1999). Nystrom and Jones (2003) used different terms depending on which chronological group they discussed but mainly used aging and old.…”

Section: Terminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite these numbers, older lesbians are a near invisible group in current society (Bayliss, 2000;Fullmer, Shenk, & Eastland, 1999;Healey, 1994;Healy, 2002;Jacobson & Samdahl, 1998;Shenk & Fullmer, 1996;Wojciechowski, 1998). Our culture's tendency to assume and ascribe heterosexuality in all its members leads to the marginalization of lesbians in general.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Review of the Literature on Older Lesbians

Averett

Jenkins

2010

J Appl Gerontol

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This article reviews the academic literature from 1997 to 2010 on older lesbians (n = 28) and provides implications for education, practice, and research. While there is an ongoing lack of research focused solely on older lesbians, we found a growing interest in this population. Importantly, there was an increase in empirical studies and, in particular, those using qualitative methods: 9 articles reported results of interviews with a total of 159 older lesbians. Overall, the research reviewed here indicates that older lesbians evidence a great deal of adaptive capacity to deal with the challenges they face, including societal marginalization and discrimination. There remains a great need for research focused solely on older lesbians, especially studies that are more inclusive in terms of diversity in age, race, and ethnicity.

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Leisure in the Lives of Old Lesbians: Experiences with and Responses to Discrimination

Cited by 41 publications

References 17 publications

Is “Raging” Good for Health?: Older Women's Participation in the Raging Grannies

Is “Raging” Good for Health?: Older Women's Participation in the Raging Grannies

Leisure research and social change: A millennial state of the art

Review of the Literature on Older Lesbians

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