Is “Raging” Good for Health
Older Women's Participation in the Raging Grannies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15217822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan L Hutchinson (0000-0001-8107-6557, Dalhousie University, corresponding author), Blair Wexler (Dalhousie University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88-118 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Care For Women International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07399330601003515 |
| PMID | 17148110 |
| OpenAlex | W2159995009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 70 |
We explore the meanings and potential health-related benefits of older women's participation in the Raging Grannies, a voluntary activist organization. The group's activities are focused on social and political protest while also challenging stereotypes about aging women. Drawing on qualitative interview and focus group data, we employed empowerment theory as a means to examine the ways in which participation in the Raging Grannies contributed to older women's personal empowerment. Results were constructed around four key themes: (1) personal and social factors influencing involvement in the Raging Grannies; (2) leisure as a context for "raging," (3) empowering processes within the Raging Grannies, and (4) empowering outcomes resulting from participation
Context (archaeology · Empowerment · Focus group · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Social engagement · Social science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Gerontology
Defying, producing, and overlooking stereotypes? The complexities of mobilizing “grandmotherhood” as political strategy
The Raging Grannies
The effect of political generation on identity and social change
“Not a care home but a political home”
The Meaning of Social Activism to Older Adults in Ireland
Perceptions of ageing among older women softball players
Token girl
Older People’s Motivations to Engage in Political Organizations
She was buried in her purple dress and her red hat and all of our members wore full ‘Red Hat Regalia’ to celebrate her life”
Conceptualizing Meaning-Making through Leisure Experiences
Expanding the Conceptualization of Workplace Violence
Feminist Beliefs Associated with Young Women's Recovery from Male-Perpetrated Abuse
I want to do everything!’
Older Men's Perceptions of Leisure and Aging
On the track of evaluated programmes targeting the social participation of seniors
Barriers to the retention of older participants in political organisations
The Gray Panther Movement as a Model for Intergenerational Approaches and Late-Life Activism
Honoring, Training, and Building a Statewide Network of Elder Activists
Leisure and Feminist Theory
An examination of the mediating role of psychological empowerment on the relations between the job, interpersonal relationships, and work outcomes.
Social Structural Characteristics of Psychological Empowerment.
The Empowerment Process
Health Education and Community Empowerment
Bowling alone
Researching to Transgress
Politics and Leisure
Grassroots Associations
The Relation Between Everyday Activities and Successful Aging
Neighborhood Problems and Health Among Older Adults
IX. Exploring Activism and Change
Women's Leisure
Voluntary Associations and Leisure
Leisure and Retirement
Community Building, Volunteering And Action Research
Aging as a Social Process
The Meaning of Leisure for Women
Women Doing Friendship’
Leisure and resistance in an ageing society
A gaggle of raging grannies
Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan
Conserving The Built Environment and Generating Heritage Tourism in Peninsular Malaysia
Older Women
Resisting the ‘mask’ of old age
Age-segregation in later life
Organizational characteristics of empowering community settings
Empowerment theory, research, and application
Bridging the Personal and the Political
Psychological empowerment
Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention
Citizen participation, perceived control, and psychological empowerment
Empowerment and public policy
The empowerment of women
Linking social cohesion and gender to intrapersonal and interactional empowerment
Impact of home-school liaisons on the reduction of risk factors for Atod use among preadolescents
Paths to psychological empowerment in an urban community
Changing lives and changing social structures
The Social Separation of Old and Young
Leisure in the Lives of Old Lesbians
Leisure, Social Capital, and Democratic Citizenship
Locating Leisure in the Social Capital Literature
Gender, Leisure, and Constraint
Building Relationships, Accessing Resources
Meanings of political participation among Black and White women
Lives of women and men active in the social protests of the 1960s
Youth Empowerment and Human Service Institutions
What Constitutes Agency and Empowerment for Women in Later Life
Residues of a Movement
Volunteering
Women's Work
Productive Activities And Subjective Well-Being Among Older Adults
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |