Home > HCAS > HCAS_PUBS > HCAS_JOURNALS > TQR Home > TQR > Vol. 12 > No. 2 (2007)
Abstract
The authors describe a project that illustrates the use of autoethnography as a research methodology to better understand their decisions to become professors. Strangers to one another, both authors discovered common motivations to make mid-life changes in opposition to cultural expectations. A review of the literature on epidemic theory, creativity, the women’s movement, role change, and life stage theory offer insight into the experiences that motivated them to reject their traditional cultural roles. Both also found a shared un willingness to accept invisibility, a common aspect of life for women over 40.
Keywords
Autoethnography, Mid-life Changes, Feminism, Ageism, Creativity, and Epidemic Theory
Publication Date
6-1-2007
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
DOI
10.46743/2160-3715/2007.1632
Recommended APA Citation
Klinker, J. F., & Todd, R. H. (2007). Two Autoethnographies: A Search for Understanding of Gender and Age. The Qualitative Report, 12(2), 166-183. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2007.1632
Included in
Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies Commons, Social Statistics Commons