Buse, CE and Twigg, JM (2014) Women with dementia and their handbags: negotiating identity, privacy and ‘home’ through material culture. Journal of Aging Studies, 30. 14 - 22. ISSN 0890-4065
Abstract
The article analyses the role of handbags in the everyday lives of women with dementia. Drawing on findings from an ESRC funded UK study ‘Dementia and Dress’, it shows how handbags are significant to supporting the identities of women with dementia as ‘biographical’ and ‘memory’ objects, both in terms of the bags themselves, and the objects they contain. This is particularly so during the transition to care homes, where previous aspects of identity and social roles may be lost. Handbags are also significant to making personal or private space within care settings. However, dementia can heighten women's ambivalent relationship to their handbags, which can become a source of anxiety as ‘lost objects’, or may be viewed as problematic or ‘unruly’. Handbags may also be adapted or discarded due to changing bodies, lifestyles and the progression of dementia.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Aging Studies. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Aging Studies, 30, 2014, 10.1016/j.jaging.2014.03.002 |
Keywords: | Dementia; Material Culture; Dress; Identity; Spatiality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2015 12:51 |
Last Modified: | 22 Apr 2015 09:18 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2014.03.002 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jaging.2014.03.002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83839 |