Female Midlife Transitions PDF
By:Marianne Kimmitt
Published on 2000 by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
There is very little in the way of contemporary ritual and myth to support women in Western culture who are experiencing midlife transitions. The psychological myths our culture employs to conceptualize midlife are often not informed by or reflective of women's sensibilities or their lived experience. In spite of numerous social, political, and economic advances, women's development continues to be understood in terms of the white, heterosexual, masculine experience. As a result, midlife tends to be understood as a chronological and biological event rather than as a psychological and spiritual process. This contributes to a very linear, lock-step heroic view of development that falls to mirror, or adequately to describe, female development. Employing both pre- and postmodern sensibilities, the writer explores and challenges how tacit conceptions about gender and age intersect to create models of female midlife development. Philosophy, feminism, postmodernism, and mythology inform the study's hermeneutic methodology and heuristic attitude. The influence of Christian and psychoanalytic myths on the way female midlife transitions are characterized and understood is explored together with the adult development theories on which many of our present notions of midlife rest. The author reviews several female midlife studies, which reveal a significant gap between the way female midlife is conceptualized by mainstream culture and the way many women experience this transition. In an effort to find more appropriate mirroring and a ritualistic container that is more reflective of women's midlife experiences, the writer looks to the myths of the ancient Sumerian Goddess Inanna. The stories, symbols, and images of Inanna invite us out of Western culture's linear dualistic paradigms and into a world that embraces multiplicity. In this world, biological and psychological cyclicity are seen as restorative and essential rather than as an aberration. It is the Writer's hope that in providing a container for a radical revisioning of female development, the reader will feel invited to trust her or his own mythic imagination, and create new narratives about women's lived experience at midlife.
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