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Growing Up and Growing Older: Feminism as a Context for Women's Lives
- Source :
- Psychology of Women Quarterly. 31:137-145
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- Social science research shows that contemporary women endorse feminist goals at rates similar to women in the 1970s. However, generations may differ in some aspects of their relationship to feminism. This study of 333 university alumnae examined expressions of feminism across three generations. We provide the first empirical evidence to support Stewart and Healy's (1989 ) prediction about the impact of social events experienced in childhood; only the youngest cohort recalled holding feminist beliefs as children. Additionally, each cohort identified feminist influences from the period coinciding with their own identity-forming adolescence as most important, although feminism was related to other beliefs in a similar way for each cohort. The Women's Movement appears to be internalized differently depending on developmental life stage.
- Subjects :
- Women's Lives
05 social sciences
Social change
050109 social psychology
Context (language use)
Gender studies
humanities
Feminism
Gender Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
050903 gender studies
Cohort
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
0509 other social sciences
Social science research
Empirical evidence
Psychology
General Psychology
Period (music)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14716402 and 03616843
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9bdb2285ac39e1132e4f4b5b6fd42bc3