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McCaleb, Nona Middleton.

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The potential of a handcrafted life: Women and longevity.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The potential of a handcrafted life: Women and longevity./
Author:	McCaleb, Nona Middleton.
Description:	177 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-11A(E).
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3520814
ISBN:	9781267535214

The potential of a handcrafted life: Women and longevity.
McCaleb, Nona Middleton.

The potential of a handcrafted life: Women and longevity. - 177 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Woman's University, 2012.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the aging process, everyday creative practices, life-long learning, and the perceived sense of self and identity in the lives of women in their eighth, ninth, and tenth decades. The criterion, that the study participants continue to actively engage in creative endeavors, was broadly defined to include both typically defined creative actions such as writing, dancing, or singing in a choir as well as everyday creativity that focuses on an aesthetic approach to life. The participants individually defined creative actions as activities that continued to engage their interests.

ISBN: 9781267535214Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

The potential of a handcrafted life: Women and longevity.
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520 $a The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the aging process, everyday creative practices, life-long learning, and the perceived sense of self and identity in the lives of women in their eighth, ninth, and tenth decades. The criterion, that the study participants continue to actively engage in creative endeavors, was broadly defined to include both typically defined creative actions such as writing, dancing, or singing in a choir as well as everyday creativity that focuses on an aesthetic approach to life. The participants individually defined creative actions as activities that continued to engage their interests.
520 $a Sara Lawrence Lightfoot's methodology of portraiture provided the investigative tools necessary for this research. Portraiture's methodology requires the identification of overarching metaphors, epiphanies, and life-marking turning points. It was imperative that the interview questions explore the context of lived experiences throughout a lifetime in order to discover the overarching patterns of thinking and choice-making, within the realm of personal possibility, that shaped the actions of the study participants prior to and during their current age location in their seventies, eighties, or nineties.
520 $a The portraitures of the sixteen women who participated in this study appear in the three data chapters. Three primary categories emerged from the data analysis: 1) the place that creative actions filled in their daily lives now in "this season of life," 2) the psychological strategies they employed to maintain positive emotional connections within themselves in response to changes outside of their control, and 3) the primary role independent thinking and pragmatic choice-making played throughout their lives.
520 $a The women I interviewed for this study, who were between seventy-three and ninety-one years of age, did not fit the current U.S. cultural image of old age; they all continued to pursue areas of interest and remained open to new possibilities. They were not interested in looking back to write memoirs. They were interested in working on new projects and following new areas of interest. This inquiry, while both building on and theorizing from current research on aging, brings first person experiential information to the body of literature on the potential of aging as a lived space of enriched longevity.
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