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Self-Care Practices at Community Centers: Motherhood in Later Life in Urban Taiwan.
- Source :
- Social Sciences (2076-0760); May2023, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p263, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In current times that emphasize active aging, older adults are often encouraged to participate in interest classes at community centers. Adopting an ethnographic research approach to understand the subjectivities of older mothers, this paper not only sees community centers as a space for older adults for taking interest classes, but also as an infrastructure that defines relationship values. This paper examines the motivations of older mothers in urban Taiwan who have established a routine at a community center. By emphasizing the public space, that is, the values indoctrinated at the community centers, this paper investigates how community center activities offer self-care practices for older women, and how these women embody motherhood by taking care of themselves. This paper expands the notion of motherhood by investigating the subjectivities of older mothers as well as the effects of the global aging discourse on them. This study of urban Taiwan sheds light on understanding the subjectivity of aging mothers in other East Asian cities. The data of this paper were collected through participant observations at community centers, in-depth interviews, and analysis of newspaper archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMMUNITY centers
URBAN life
MOTHERHOOD
ACTIVE aging
PUBLIC spaces
OLDER women
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20760760
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Sciences (2076-0760)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163985312
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050263