Cougars and Crones

• Title – Cougars and Crones

• Subtitle – Maverick Archetypes for Older Women

• Author – Amanda Barusch

• Genre – Non-fiction, Women’s Studies

• Type – A chapter from the book, “Shaping Ageing”

• Publication Date – Arpil, 2022

• Publisher – Taylor & Francis Group

• Medium – Journal

• Available at – Taylor & Francis Group

• Link – https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003046790-5/cougars-crones-amanda-barusch

• Synopsis – This sprightly little piece argues that cougars and crones might not get on terribly well but they both fulfill the same function: Expanding the possibilities for older women. It appears in Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings, edited by Adriana Teodorescu and Dan Chiribuca and published by Routledge.

Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

• Title – Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

• Subtitle – Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life

• Editors – Adriana Teodorescu, Dan Chiribucă

• Amanda Barusch’s Contribution – Chapter 3: Cougars and Crones: Maverick Archetypes for Older Women

• Genre – Sociology, Gerontology

• Type – Book

• Publication Date – March 24, 2022

• Publisher – Routledge

• Medium – Ebook, Hardback

• Available at – Amazon

• Link – https://a.co/d/48EakMa

• Synopsis – This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

Pandemic in America

• Title – Pandemic in America

• Author – Amanda Barusch

• Genre – Non-fiction

• Type – Personal Essay

• Publication Date – March 1, 2021

• Publisher – Newsroom New Zealand

• Medium – Newspaper

• Available at – Newsroom New Zealand

• Link – https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/pandemic-in-america

• Synopsis – A personal essay from University of Otago academic Amanda Barusch on living in a United States that has lost more than half a million people to Covid-19.

A Place for Dad

• Title – A Place for Dad

• Author - Amanda Barusch

• Genre – Non-fiction

• Type – A chapter from the book, “Care Home Stories”

• Publication Date – January 1, 2020

• Publisher – Academia.edu

• Medium – Journal

• Available at – Academia.edu

• Link – https://www.academia.edu/62281061/A_Place_for_Dad

• Synopsis – Published in Care Home Stories, which Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg edited and published by Transcript Verlag, this chapter describes my family's struggle to care for my father when, in his mid-80s, he developed Alzheimer's Disease. It reveals the seamy side of the for-profit elder care “industry” in the United States and puts our experience in national and historical contexts.

Creating Social Change Through Creativity

• Title – Creating Social Change Through Creativity

• Subtitle – Anti-oppressive arts-based research methodologies

• Editors – M. Capous-Desyllas & K. Morgaine (Eds)

• Amanda Barusch’s Contribution – Chapter 6: Conversations with Suzanna: Exploring gender, motherhood, and research practice.

• Genre – Sociology

• Type – Book

• Publication Date – Nov. 7, 2017

• Publisher – Palgrave Macmillan

• Medium – Hardcover, Softcover, eBook, PDF

• Available at – Springer Link

• Link – https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-52129-9

• PDF – Chapter 6: Conversations with Suzanna

• Synopsis – This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change in oppressed and marginalized communities. The contributors discuss literary techniques, performance, visual art, and new media in relation to the co-construction of knowledge and positionality, reflexivity, data representation, community building and engagement, and pedagogy. The contributors to this volume hail from a wide array of disciplines, including sociology, social work, community psychology, anthropology, performing arts, education, medicine, and public health.

Care Home Stories

• Title – Care Home Stories

• Subtitle – Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care (Aging Studies)

• Editors – Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg

• Amanda Barusch’s Contribution – A chapter entitled “A Place for Dad: One Family’s Experience of For-Profit Care”

• Type – Book

• Publication Date – September 27, 2017

• Publisher – Transcript Publishing

• Medium – Paperback

• Available at – Amazon

• Link – https://a.co/d/80FRQpU

• Synopsis – Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.

Age-Friendly Cities: A Social Work Perspective

• Title – Age-Friendly Cities: A Social Work Perspective

• Author – Amanda S. Barusch

• Genre – Sociology, Gerontology

• Type – Article

• Publication Date – July 30, 2013

• Publisher – Journal of Gerontological Social Work

• Medium – Journal

• Available at – Journal of Gerontological Social Work (via Taylor & Francis Group)

• Link – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01634372.2013.826563

• Synopsis – This editorial makes the case for social work involvement in the movement to make cities more “age-friendly.” 

Refining the Narrative Turn

• Title – Refining the Narrative Turn

• Subtitle – When does story-telling become research?

• Author – Amanda Barusch

• Type – Scholarly Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America

• Date – Nov. 16, 2012

• Medium – PDF

• Available at – amandabarusch.com

• PDF – Refining the Narrative Turn

• Synopsis – This illustrated paper was presented to the Gerontological Society of America. It defines “narrative research” and proposes three criteria for evaluating its quality: giving the storyteller (interviewee) plenty of time and freedom to develop a coherent narrative; completing data analysis that addresses not only the content, but also the form of the narrative; and interpreting the data in ways that respect context as well as narrative intent.

The Aging Tsunami: Time for a New Metaphor?

• Title – The Aging Tsunami: Time for a New Metaphor?

• Author – Amanda S. Barusch

• Genre – Sociology, Gerontology

• Type – Article

• Publication Date – April 2, 2013

• Publisher – Taylor & Francis Group

• Medium – Journal

• Available at – Taylor & Francis Group

• Link – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01634372.2013.787348

• Synopsis – This (widely cited) editorial argues that the tsunami metaphor is degrading and inaccurate. It should be replaced.

Envy Is Ignorance

• Title – Envy Is Ignorance

• Author – Amanda Barusch

• Genre – Memoir

• Type – Short Story

• Publication Date – 2010

• Publisher – Bravado (18, p. 44-45)

• Medium – Magazine

• Available at – amandabarusch.com

• PDF – Envy Is Ignorance

• Synopsis – This autobiographical essay explores envy, shame, and guilt in the context of a horrible murder.

Love and Ageism

• Title – Love and Ageism

• Subtitle – A Social Work Perspective

• Author – Amanda Smith Barusch, PhD

• Genre – Sociology, Gerontology, Love, Romance, Relationships

• Type – Article

• Publication Date – Feb 1, 2009

• Publisher – Social Work Today

• Medium – Magazine

• Available at – Social Work Today

• Link – https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/011909p12.shtml

• Synopsis – Looking at an older couple kissing, a young woman once said, “Euuw. The idea of old people having sex makes me squirm.” This article responds to that.

Sea Change

• Title – Sea Change

• Author – Amanda Barusch

• Genre – Memoir

• Type – Short Story

• Publication Date – Dec. 12, 2008

• Publisher – Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts. Official Journal of the Gerontological Society of America. Volume 2, 2008 - Issue 3-4: Historical Perspectives on Older Women's Struggle for “Security” in Old Age

• Medium – Journal

• Available at – Taylor & Francis Online

• Link – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19325610802558035

• PDF – Sea Change

• Synopsis – An autobiographical essay about losing a parent.