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Memory, Art, and Aging: A Resources and Activity Guide
(Traditional Arts Indiana, 2020) Traditional Arts Indiana; Jon Kay
Based on fieldwork in southern Indiana, this resource guide was developed to explore how everyday arts help older adults in later life. The guide contains a collection of artist profiles of older adults in Indiana engaged in creative practices. Profiles are paired with activities and resources for older adults.
Everyday Arts in Later Life
(Traditional Arts Indiana, 2024) Traditional Arts Indiana; Kay, Jon; Jackson, Joelle; Islam, Touhidul
This guide is a collection of artist profiles and activities aimed to highlight the importance of creative practice in later life, especially creative undertakings that are embeded in everyday life. The engaging profiles are paired with resources and activities.
UNDERSTANDING THE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2024-08) Wright, Brittanni N.; Herbenick, Debby
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a blood disorder that mostly affects people of African heritage. The most known symptom of SCD is a pain crisis. A pain crisis is when red blood cells sickle in the blood vessels and cause intense, often debilitating pain. Until the late 1990s, SCD was seen as a pediatric health condition as people were not expected to live beyond their childhood. However, due to the advancements in medicine, people living with sickle cell disease (PLWSCD), in economically advanced countries, are living longer into adulthood. Thus, attention has shifted to investigate how SCD affects a person’s sexual health. Methods: 18 PLWSCD, in the United States of America and Canada, participated in in-depth recorded interviews. Using thematic analysis, the interviews were coded, and themes were created. Results: In Manuscript 1, four themes were produced: 1) Pain and Pleasure or Pleasure and Pain; 2) It Happens: Pain in Genitals; 3) Conversations with Partners; and 4) Please Talk to Us. For Manuscript 2, three themes were generated: 1) Let’s Reposition: Navigating Mobility; 2) Not Right Now; and 3) What Will They Think About Me. Conclusion: Overall, PLWSCD experienced a sex-or orgasm induced pain crisis, but little attention is given to this phenomenon by healthcare providers or within the sickle cell community at large. Furthermore, to their displeasure, PLWSCD lamented that sexual partners often questioned their ability to decide if they were fit enough to engage in sexual activities. Finally, due to complications from SCD, many participants have undergone surgeries for joint replacements. However, after undergoing joint replacement surgery, their ability to navigate sexual positions was stymied. Therefore, the Sickle Cell Disease and Sexuality Framework was created to help clinicians and PLWSCD understand how SCD affects a person’s sexual life.
SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2024-08) Stern, Kortney; Ingham, Patricia
In “Sonic Interventions: Silence, Sound, and Melody in Medieval Literature,” I examine five early literary texts, spanning from the late-fifth to early-fifteenth-century: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre” and the anonymous, late fifth-century Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. These five works may differ in author, time of composition, and genre, but I yoke these stories together because of each author's treatment of agency and the sonic. In response to the latter, many texts from past and present include representations of sound, but there is more regarding the sonic in these five works than the mere presence of such a literary feature. What joins these five works is how each author draws upon sound as an alternative way to animate their marginalized characters when their voices fail. Even when voice proves to be impossible for myriad reasons, these early literary works showcase marginalized characters that can temporarily rebel, refute, and resist through their author's orchestration of what I refer to as “sonic expressions” or the ability to express through sound. In this dissertation, I examine expressions of silence, laughter, weeping, and song. As a result, I argue that each author repositions minoritized character(s) from the margins of the text to its center because the agency sound affords these figures, however temporarily. When marginalized voices are silenced, oppressed, or ignored in the story, their sonic expressions still pulsate across the page.
NEGOTIATING GENDER ACCOUNTABILITY ACROSS CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF THE FORMER COLLEGE ATHLETE
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2024-07) Russian, Anna Elyse Acosta; Cha, Youngjoo
The purpose of this dissertation is to uncover the nuanced ways individuals make sense of shifting gender accountability norms as they transition out of a unique social context and into broader U.S. society. This dissertation examines how 84 former Division I college athletes use the socialization they acquired through college sport in their lives once they are no longer student-athletes. I ask: When is being a former college athlete utilized as an asset, and when is it seen as a liability? How does race and gender impact these choices?
I use the case study of former Division I college athletes to investigate three key things. First, to explore how women and men translate the skillset acquired in the previous context of college athletics to their current workplace context that associates such skills with the masculine-typed ideal worker image. Second, to uncover the degree to which women and men can use a gendered status marker to their advantage at work. Third, to explore the extent to which broader cultural gender norms impede or facilitate the maintenance of one’s athletic identity—a social identity cultivated and rewarded by all genders in the college athletics context, still seen as masculine by broader U.S. society.
Results show all former student-athletes use the social skills learned through college athletics in their work life today, but men can benefit from these skills to a greater degree than women because they more directly embody the ideal worker image. Respondents are more likely to use their college athlete credential in workplace contexts that share similar values and norms as college athletics. These workplace contexts are more likely to be predominantly white and men-dominated spaces than not. Thus, unsurprisingly, white men were more likely than Black men and Black and White women to use their athlete credential to their advantage at work. Furthermore, I find men have a smoother transition to recreational sporting life than women because broader gender norms continue to view athletics as a predominantly man-centric activity. I argue the case of the former D1 college athlete serves as an appropriate site to explore the ways in which people use or reject social practices previously learned in an overarchingly masculine institution as they navigate the contexts surrounding work and sport in their lives today.