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Gender, genocide, and ethnicity: the legacies of older Armenian American mothers.
- Source :
- Journal of Family Issues; Apr2007, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p567-589, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Women use legacies to help family members articulate family identity, learn family history, and provide succeeding generations with information about family culture. Using feminist standpoint theory and the life-course perspective, this qualitative study examined the intergenerational transmissions that 30 older Armenian American mothers received and transmitted to succeeding generations within the sociohistorical experience of genocide. Mothers passed on legacies that included family stories, rituals/activities, and possessions. Because of multiple losses during the Armenian Genocide, they emphasized legacies that symbolized connection to family, underscored family cohesion, and accentuated ethnic identity. Tensions were evident as well because women's sense of responsibility for legacies clashed with their limited cultural knowledge, few inherited possessions, and the inevitable assimilation of their children and grandchildren into the dominant U.S. culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RESEARCH
GENOCIDE
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
PSYCHOLOGY of mothers
FEMINISM
RESEARCH methodology
ARMENIAN Americans
INTERVIEWING
SEX distribution
CONCEPTUAL structures
QUALITATIVE research
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
RESEARCH funding
DATA analysis software
JUDGMENT sampling
MEDICAL coding
POWER (Social sciences)
STORYTELLING
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0192513X
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Issues
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 105969648
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513x06297605