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Empowering Senior Females By Utilizing Each Female Person's Voice To Create Desired Lifestyle Options, Icydor Aldale Mohabier
Empowering Senior Females By Utilizing Each Female Person's Voice To Create Desired Lifestyle Options, Icydor Aldale Mohabier
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Interviews of senior females ranging in age from 55 through 72 were conducted between September 2004 and April 2005, in order to determine what lifestyle options this group would like made available to them. The participants represented a sample of senior females who had different backgrounds, including culture, education level, and economic circumstance. Although all the participants had very different lifestyles at the time of their interviews, most were satisfied with their current lifestyles but wanted to change something about it. The research results indicate that there are three desired lifestyle options that senior females want: socializing, improving their health, …
Maine Women's Insider (August 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff
Maine Women's Insider (August 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Women's Insider (June 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff
Maine Women's Insider (June 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Fiera, Guambra, Y Karichina!: Transgressing The Borders Of Community And Academy, Patricia Herrera
Fiera, Guambra, Y Karichina!: Transgressing The Borders Of Community And Academy, Patricia Herrera
Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications
As Latinas with diverse biographies in and out of the university,1 we share a commitment to actively engage with all of our communities. As students and teachers, we are expected to leave our personal lives out of our "intellectual" workspaces, causing feelings of isolation and fragmentation (hooks, 1994). We are concerned with the ways we can maintain a sense of connection and wholeness for our well-being and that of our communities. Our collaboration with the National Latina Health Organization's (NLH0)2 Intergenerational Latina Health Leadership Project has enabled us to work toward this goal. This project provides a revolutionary …