Embodying the crone: transformation and a woman's rite of passage
| dc.contributor.author | Peekeekoot, Gail Fern | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Hartrick, Gwen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-18T23:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-18T23:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
| dc.degree.department | Faculty of Human and Social Development | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Nursing | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study, based on Interpretive Interactionism, explores transformation connected with the Craning rituals of four women. Through private in-depth interviews, women shared their deeply contextualized stories of Craning. Based on the interviews, a narrative--including points of transformation connected with her ritual--was created for each woman. As a coparticipant, I have shared how my own story may have influenced my interpretation of and interaction with these stories of Croning. From the narrative themes--"Creating a Positive Aging Experience", "Crossing the Threshold into WOMANhood", "Process of Acknowledgement and Clearing to Make Way for the New", and "From Mother to Crone, Embodying the Crone Energy"—two main themes sprang: Womens' Rites of Passage and Embodying the Crone Archetype. These themes are discussed and information is offered from both the popular and academic literature, about ritual, transformation, Croning, Archetypes, and Rites of Passage. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22487 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.title | Embodying the crone: transformation and a woman's rite of passage | |
| dc.type | Thesis |