Kaysi Eastlick Kushner
Biographic Data
| ID | 90018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaysi Eastlick Kushner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaysi Eastlick |
| FAMILY NAME | Kushner |
| SIGNATURE | KUSHNER K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The adoption, implementation and maintenance of a school food policy in the Canadian Arctic: A retrospective case study
With increasing childhood obesity rates and type 2 diabetes developing in younger age groups, many schools have initiated policies to support healthy eating and active living. Policy interventions can influence not only health behaviours in students but can also impact these behaviours beyond the school walls into the community. We articulate a policy story that emerged during the data collection phase of a study focused on building knowledge and…
To me, policy is government”: Creating a locally driven healthy food environment in the Canadian Arctic
It all comes out in the wash: Family policy, ideology and the pathway to contemporary mothering
In this article, we delineate the pathways by which mothers’ strategies to integrate work and family emerge during the early years of parenthood. We conducted a secondary analysis of 100 interviews with 17 families from a longitudinal, qualitative data set that explored women’s strategizing about work-family integration during early parenthood. Using Critical Feminist Theory and principles of Institutional Ethnography, we examined the ways in whi…
On shifting ground: First-time parents' ideal world of paid work and family time
We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers' perspectives,…
Theoretical Triangulation as an Extension of Feminist Intersectionality in Qualitative Family Research
We propose the theoretical triangulation of feminist intersectionality, critical, and symbolic interaction perspectives as an innovative qualitative family research approach. Theoretical triangulation draws on alternative theories as analytical frameworks to explore different viewpoints about research phenomena. Feminist intersectionality provides a rich examination of phenomena at the intersection of conditions of power, privilege, and oppressio…
Challenges Faced by Refugee New Parents from Africa in Canada
Health Experiences of Korean Immigrant Women in Retirement
In this focused ethnographic study, we explored the health experiences of 15 Korean immigrant women after retirement in an urban center in Western Canada. Almost all women began their lives in Canada without adequate personal finances, making their employment essential for supporting their families financially. Most women lived with more than two chronic diseases, attributed to long hours and difficult work conditions. They experienced improved p…
Mothering in the Wake of Childhood Violence Experiences: Reweaving a Self and a World at the Intersection of History and Context
We examined the stories of 12 women mothering growing children at the intersection of personal history (childhood violence experiences) and symbolic, structural, and ideological forces and conditions. Women revealed their determination to reweave a self and a world, that is, to continually reconstruct and reconfigure their lives to change the story for themselves and their children. Women's ability to reweave, however, was facilitated or challeng…
The Experience of Korean Immigrant Women Adjusting to Canadian Society
Anticipating Parenthood: Women's and Men's Meanings, Expectations, and Idea(l)s in Canada
The study purpose was to explicate meanings, expectations, and contexts of parenting as women and men prepared to become parents for the first time. We used a prospective, qualitative study design informed by symbolic interactionist and critical feminist perspectives. In-depth interviews were conducted during pregnancy with 21 expectant mothers and 18 expectant fathers, including 18 couples reflecting socioeconomic and cultural diversity in a wes…
Understanding the Language, the Culture, and the Experience: Translation in Cross-Cultural Research
Achieving conceptual equivalence between two languages is a challenge in cross-cultural, cross-language research, as the research is conducted in a language that is not the researcher's or research team's first language. Therefore, translation provides an additional challenge in cross-cultural research. The comprehension and interpretation of the meaning of data is central in cross-cultural qualitative analysis. The purpose of this article is to …
Where There Is Smoke, There is Stress: Low-Income Women Identify Support Needs and Preferences for Smoking Reduction
Efforts to assist low-income women with tobacco reduction and cessation have typically not been informed by assessment of their needs and wishes. This multi-site qualitative study focused on assessing 64 low-income women's support needs and intervention preferences. These women were interested in smoking cessation, but identified many barriers and needed appropriate supports. However, available smoking cessation programs did not address underlyin…
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews: A Research Note
This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely have they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, and little attention has been paid to the influence that interpreters have on the validity of qualitative data. We advance this body of literature by describing an…
Participatory pilot interventions for vulnerable populations: A response to Lillard
Employed Mothers' Worker Ideology and Social Support Network Composition
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine employed mothers' social support network composition in relation to their orientation to worker ideology. A reanalysis of data from two longitudinal, interview studies was conducted. Ecomaps were developed to depict women's social support network composition, revealing five types of support sources: household family, nonhousehold family, friends and neighbors, workplace, and formal services. A…
Impacts of a support intervention for low-income women who smoke
Embodied Context: Social Institutional Influences on Employed Mothers' Health Decision Making
The purpose of this critical ethnographic study was to explicate the ways that employed mothers' personal and family health decision making were socially organized through the institutions of motherhood, the family, the workplace, and the health care, education, and social systems in Canada. Data were analyzed from individual interviews, a focus group, workplace policy documents, and popular media articles. Twenty women participated over 2 years.…
Understanding the Language, the Culture, and the Experience: Translation in Cross-Cultural Research
Achieving conceptual equivalence between two languages is a challenge in cross-cultural, cross-language research, as the research is conducted in a language that is not the researcher's or research team's first language. Therefore, translation provides an additional challenge in cross-cultural research. The comprehension and interpretation of the meaning of data is central in cross-cultural qualitative analysis. The purpose of this article is to …
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews: A Research Note
This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely have they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, and little attention has been paid to the influence that interpreters have on the validity of qualitative data. We advance this body of literature by describing an…
On shifting ground: First-time parents' ideal world of paid work and family time
We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers' perspectives,…
Theoretical Triangulation as an Extension of Feminist Intersectionality in Qualitative Family Research
We propose the theoretical triangulation of feminist intersectionality, critical, and symbolic interaction perspectives as an innovative qualitative family research approach. Theoretical triangulation draws on alternative theories as analytical frameworks to explore different viewpoints about research phenomena. Feminist intersectionality provides a rich examination of phenomena at the intersection of conditions of power, privilege, and oppressio…
The Experience of Korean Immigrant Women Adjusting to Canadian Society
Anticipating Parenthood: Women's and Men's Meanings, Expectations, and Idea(l)s in Canada
The study purpose was to explicate meanings, expectations, and contexts of parenting as women and men prepared to become parents for the first time. We used a prospective, qualitative study design informed by symbolic interactionist and critical feminist perspectives. In-depth interviews were conducted during pregnancy with 21 expectant mothers and 18 expectant fathers, including 18 couples reflecting socioeconomic and cultural diversity in a wes…
It all comes out in the wash: Family policy, ideology and the pathway to contemporary mothering
In this article, we delineate the pathways by which mothers’ strategies to integrate work and family emerge during the early years of parenthood. We conducted a secondary analysis of 100 interviews with 17 families from a longitudinal, qualitative data set that explored women’s strategizing about work-family integration during early parenthood. Using Critical Feminist Theory and principles of Institutional Ethnography, we examined the ways in whi…
Impacts of a support intervention for low-income women who smoke
Employed Mothers' Worker Ideology and Social Support Network Composition
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine employed mothers' social support network composition in relation to their orientation to worker ideology. A reanalysis of data from two longitudinal, interview studies was conducted. Ecomaps were developed to depict women's social support network composition, revealing five types of support sources: household family, nonhousehold family, friends and neighbors, workplace, and formal services. A…
Embodied Context: Social Institutional Influences on Employed Mothers' Health Decision Making
The purpose of this critical ethnographic study was to explicate the ways that employed mothers' personal and family health decision making were socially organized through the institutions of motherhood, the family, the workplace, and the health care, education, and social systems in Canada. Data were analyzed from individual interviews, a focus group, workplace policy documents, and popular media articles. Twenty women participated over 2 years.…
Participatory pilot interventions for vulnerable populations: A response to Lillard
Employed Mothers' Worker Ideology and Social Support Network Composition
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine employed mothers' social support network composition in relation to their orientation to worker ideology. A reanalysis of data from two longitudinal, interview studies was conducted. Ecomaps were developed to depict women's social support network composition, revealing five types of support sources: household family, nonhousehold family, friends and neighbors, workplace, and formal services. A…
Impacts of a support intervention for low-income women who smoke
Where There Is Smoke, There is Stress: Low-Income Women Identify Support Needs and Preferences for Smoking Reduction
Efforts to assist low-income women with tobacco reduction and cessation have typically not been informed by assessment of their needs and wishes. This multi-site qualitative study focused on assessing 64 low-income women's support needs and intervention preferences. These women were interested in smoking cessation, but identified many barriers and needed appropriate supports. However, available smoking cessation programs did not address underlyin…
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews: A Research Note
This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely have they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, and little attention has been paid to the influence that interpreters have on the validity of qualitative data. We advance this body of literature by describing an…
Understanding the Language, the Culture, and the Experience: Translation in Cross-Cultural Research
Achieving conceptual equivalence between two languages is a challenge in cross-cultural, cross-language research, as the research is conducted in a language that is not the researcher's or research team's first language. Therefore, translation provides an additional challenge in cross-cultural research. The comprehension and interpretation of the meaning of data is central in cross-cultural qualitative analysis. The purpose of this article is to …
Challenges Faced by Refugee New Parents from Africa in Canada
Health Experiences of Korean Immigrant Women in Retirement
In this focused ethnographic study, we explored the health experiences of 15 Korean immigrant women after retirement in an urban center in Western Canada. Almost all women began their lives in Canada without adequate personal finances, making their employment essential for supporting their families financially. Most women lived with more than two chronic diseases, attributed to long hours and difficult work conditions. They experienced improved p…
Mothering in the Wake of Childhood Violence Experiences: Reweaving a Self and a World at the Intersection of History and Context
We examined the stories of 12 women mothering growing children at the intersection of personal history (childhood violence experiences) and symbolic, structural, and ideological forces and conditions. Women revealed their determination to reweave a self and a world, that is, to continually reconstruct and reconfigure their lives to change the story for themselves and their children. Women's ability to reweave, however, was facilitated or challeng…
The Experience of Korean Immigrant Women Adjusting to Canadian Society
Anticipating Parenthood: Women's and Men's Meanings, Expectations, and Idea(l)s in Canada
The study purpose was to explicate meanings, expectations, and contexts of parenting as women and men prepared to become parents for the first time. We used a prospective, qualitative study design informed by symbolic interactionist and critical feminist perspectives. In-depth interviews were conducted during pregnancy with 21 expectant mothers and 18 expectant fathers, including 18 couples reflecting socioeconomic and cultural diversity in a wes…
Theoretical Triangulation as an Extension of Feminist Intersectionality in Qualitative Family Research
We propose the theoretical triangulation of feminist intersectionality, critical, and symbolic interaction perspectives as an innovative qualitative family research approach. Theoretical triangulation draws on alternative theories as analytical frameworks to explore different viewpoints about research phenomena. Feminist intersectionality provides a rich examination of phenomena at the intersection of conditions of power, privilege, and oppressio…
On shifting ground: First-time parents' ideal world of paid work and family time
We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers' perspectives,…
The adoption, implementation and maintenance of a school food policy in the Canadian Arctic: A retrospective case study
With increasing childhood obesity rates and type 2 diabetes developing in younger age groups, many schools have initiated policies to support healthy eating and active living. Policy interventions can influence not only health behaviours in students but can also impact these behaviours beyond the school walls into the community. We articulate a policy story that emerged during the data collection phase of a study focused on building knowledge and…
To me, policy is government”: Creating a locally driven healthy food environment in the Canadian Arctic
It all comes out in the wash: Family policy, ideology and the pathway to contemporary mothering
In this article, we delineate the pathways by which mothers’ strategies to integrate work and family emerge during the early years of parenthood. We conducted a secondary analysis of 100 interviews with 17 families from a longitudinal, qualitative data set that explored women’s strategizing about work-family integration during early parenthood. Using Critical Feminist Theory and principles of Institutional Ethnography, we examined the ways in whi…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)