CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Tauzer, Jayme Ann |
|---|---|
| Title | "I'm Not a Museum": Narratives of Activism and Ageism |
| Summary | This study explores the ways in which a “wave narrative” of feminism may inform group and individual understandings of feminist action. Presenting data from semi-structured interviews with thirteen women who are currently active in two feminist activist organizations in London, this paper seeks to evaluate the extent to which ageist attitudes are both supported by and complicated within the stories we tell about our feminist activism(s). The women from this sample are of two age cohorts, representing voices of young and old feminist activists. I explore the narratives these women provided about their experiences with feminist activism –particularly narratives of group representation and community belonging, individual definitions of feminist activism, and narratives of embodied ageism among old activists. I find that the body plays a central role in old women’s understandings of the interplay of age and gender in positioning them marginally in the feminist movement and in society. |
| Supervisor | Geva, Dorit ; Peto, Andrea |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/tauzer_jayme.pdf |
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