Stories of mid-life career women with cancer: constructing moral identities in everyday talk

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dc.contributor.advisorSchneider, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorHofmeister, Marianna Lorraine
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-16T17:02:54Z
dc.date.available2005-08-16T17:02:54Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 89-94en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis reports the results of a study of stories told by mid-life career women with cancer in Calgary, 2003. An interpretivist approach is used to increase understanding about the role of communication in the social construction of survival. This research focuses on the socially constructed self displayed in dialogic communication. Using narrative methodology and drawing on a corpus of 6 patient-to-patient interviews, this paper demonstrates that: (a) interpersonal communication in narrative forms constitute self identity, and (b) storytellers actively construct moral identities following cancer experience. Drawing on aspects of narrative identity advocated by Ricouer (1984 & 1992) and moral identity advocated by Gergen (1998) I illustrate how narrative methodology may be applied to examine how people deal with cancer by telling stories. This research reveals that post-modem narratives link the mind, the self, and society and enable people to deal with cancer by constructing moral identities for the self.en
dc.format.extentvii, 100 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationHofmeister, M. L. (2004). Stories of mid-life career women with cancer: constructing moral identities in everyday talk (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23140en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/23140
dc.identifier.isbn0494038217en
dc.identifier.lccAC1 .T484 2004 H635en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/41603
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
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dc.titleStories of mid-life career women with cancer: constructing moral identities in everyday talk
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication and Culture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 1507 520492024
ucalgary.thesis.notesUARCen
ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleaseyen
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