Processing gender: lived experiences of reproducing and transforming gender norms over the life course of young people in Northern Uganda

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecka Lundgren ◽  
Sarah Burgess ◽  
Heather Chantelois ◽  
Susan Oregede ◽  
Brad Kerner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
The Life Course

Moving Away from Marital Violence: Nepali Mothers Who Refuse to Stay

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Brunson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Marital Violence ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Becoming A Mother ◽  
Natal Home ◽  
The Life Course

During research on changes in the reproductive desires of young Hindu Nepali mothers in the Kathmandu Valley, I encountered a theme of suffering or hardship, dukha in Nepali, in women's responses. My research, and thus my questions, were not designed to evoke stories of suffering; they asked about marriage, the differences between being a daughter in one's natal home and a wife in one's husband's home, women's experiences of pregnancy, of birth, and of the period of seclusion after birth known as sutkeri, and the transition to becoming a mother-in-law. A rich body of literature on South Asia describes how a woman's status fluctuates dramatically over the life course (Bennett 1982; Das 1992; Das Gupta 1995; Lamb 2000), and I was examining how changes in caste, gender norms, and family residence patterns were adding complexity to this model of women's life course trajectories.

The life course anticipated: gender and chronologisation among young people

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 597-597
Author(s):  
Jenny Hockey ◽  
Victoria Robinson ◽  
Alex Hall
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Huijsmans ◽  
Nicola Ansell ◽  
Peggy Froerer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Course Development ◽  
The Life Course

AbstractIn this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people’s lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on the methodological challenges in researching young people’s aspirations in development. While mindful of the various critiques of aspiration research we argue that aspirations constitute fertile terrain for theorising the temporal dynamics of being young and growing up in contexts of development.

“Adulthood” by Whose Definition?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry J. Nelson ◽  
Stephanie S. Luster
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Third ◽  
Transition Into Adulthood ◽  
The Life Course

The beginning of adulthood may well be the most nebulous transition of the life course. It is fair to say that no clear-cut universal marker indicates the beginning of adulthood, leading to widespread cultural and individual diversity in the beliefs of young people aged 18–29 regarding what it means to be an adult and how the transition into adulthood should occur. This chapter examines this complexity. The authors review the literature exploring the conceptions of adulthood of young people beginning at age 18 and continuing through the third decade; examine how these conceptions have been linked to beliefs, behaviors, and relationships during the third decade of life; (c) recommend numerous areas of inquiry needed to better understand factors related to young people’s conceptions of adulthood; and (d) provide some thoughts on the implications of the extant research for those who work with young people.

scholarly journals Association of Residential Mobility Over the Life Course With Nonaffective Psychosis in 1.4 Million Young People in Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (11) ◽  
pp. 1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceri Price ◽  
Christina Dalman ◽  
Stanley Zammit ◽  
James B. Kirkbride
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals ‘It’s just limboland’: Parental dementia and young people’s life courses

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-259
Author(s):  
Melanie Hall ◽  
Pat Sikes
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Life Planning ◽  
Young Onset Dementia ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact

Drawing on narrative interviews from a study exploring the perceptions and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with young onset dementia, this article explores the ways in which the condition impacted their life courses. Dementia is degenerative, terminal and has an unpredictable timeframe that affected young people’s time perspectives, life planning and the ways they conceptualized their lives. This article contributes to the literature around young people’s life courses by illustrating how the concept of liminality can inform understandings of the impact of parental illness on the life course. Using a constructionist perspective we explore the impact of parental dementia on life planning in relation to education/career, mobilities and personal lives. For some, the future was a source of deep anxiety, whilst others were preoccupied with the present and unable to contemplate life beyond their parents’ illness. On the whole, participants felt their lives were in ‘limbo’ until their parents’ death. The data indicate that nuanced approaches towards the life course are required in order to better understand ‘being in limbo’ and to inform support.

Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Fabbre ◽  
Anna Siverskog
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Community Resistance ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter explores the intersections of gender, sexuality and age through transgender aging. Using empirical work from both Swedish and U.S. contexts, it examines how heteronormative expectations for human lives are challenged by the identities, lived experiences and life choices of older transgender adults. Further, the chapter draws upon life course and queer perspectives to analyse the role of community-level organizing and resistance as pathways to wellness in later life for transgender people

Time to Say Farewell to ‘Early Childhood’?

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Moss
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Life Course

The time may have come for adopting a broader perspective than early childhood, looking across childhood, or even sometimes across the life course: early childhood services should be seen in relation to other provisions for children and young people, including compulsory school. One consequence might be to find a new and shared way of thinking about these services, for example, as ‘children's spaces’. To adopt a wider perspective entails risks for early childhood, but there are, equally, risks from not changing.

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