The Gerontologist, Vol 30, Issue 6 734-740, Copyright © 1990 by The Gerontological Society of America

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A lifetime of work: the context and meanings of leisure for aging black women

KR Allen and V Chin-Sang
Department of Family and Child Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061.

Qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 African-American women were conducted to examine the contemporary meanings of leisure within the context of lifelong work histories. Respondents followed a pattern of unpaid agricultural work in childhood, paid work in mostly domestic and service jobs as adults, and volunteer work in church and senior centers as retirees. The women continued their history of self-reliance by incorporating their lifetime of hard work into their leisure experiences and service to self and others in old age.

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