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" Writer/director/producer Justine Bateman examines the aggressive ways that society reacts to the aging of women's faces. Face ...is filled with fictional vignettes that examine real-life societal attitudes and internal fears that have caused a negative perspective on women's faces as they age. 8212 The TODAY Show , a Best Book of 2021 [Bateman] studies the topic of women and aging in her new book Face: One Square Foot of Skin . 8212 People There is nothing wrong with your face. At least, that's what Justine Bateman wants you to realize. Her new book, Face: One Square Foot of Skin , is a collection of fictional short stories told from the perspectives of women of all ages and professions,with it, she aims to correct the popular idea that you need to stop what you're doing and start staving off any signs of aging in the face. 8212 W Magazine The actor and author of Face: One Square Foot of Skin wants to push back against the ubiquity of plastic surgery. 8212 Vanity Fair Justine Bateman extends her creative talents to include fiction in this collection of vignettes that focus on how we've learned to react to women's faces as they age. Based on Bateman's own real-life interviews, the stories dig deep to uncover why we're uncomfortable with faces of a certain age, and argue that confidence8212 and not cosmetic procedures8212 are the answer to the problem. 8212 Town & Country , one of the Best Books of Spring 2021 Through a selection of short stories, [Bateman] examines just how complicated it is for women to get older, both in and out of the spotlight. 8212 Glamour Bateman asks, what if we just rejected the idea that older faces need fixing. What if we ignored all the clanging bells that remind women every day on every platform that we are in some kind of endless battle with aging. 8212 TIME Magazine [Bateman] argues that American society has long equated the signs of aging on a woman's face with unattractiveness. But she also asserts that women need not participate in such prejudice by accepting and internalizing it. 8212 AARPFace: One Square Foot of Skin [is] a creative nonfiction tome about the ways society responds to women as they age...[Bateman] said she was compelled to take a deeper look at the unfair expectations placed on women, particularly women in the public eye like her, as they grow older. 8212 Hollywood Reporter Right on, Justine Bateman. Thanks for helping us embrace our faces just as they are. 8212 Upworthy It's been a long time since I read something that made me want to stand up and cheer. 8212 ScaryMommyFace is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be fixed. Based on older face experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes toward women's older faces. In doing so, Bateman rejects those ingrained assumptions about the necessity of fixing older women's faces, suggesting that we move on from judging someone's worth based on the condition of her face. With impassioned prose and a laser-sharp eye, Bateman argues that a woman's confidence should grow as she ages, not be destroyed by society's misled attitude about that one square..."
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Biographisches: "〈span〉Justine Bateman〈/span〉 is a writer/director/producer with an impressive acting r233" Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 15, 2021 An in-depth examination of why we should ever find an older face 'horrible' to begin with...and feel compelled to 'fix' it. In Fame (2018), Bateman deconstructed the flimsy edifice of celebrity. In this equally fiery and potent follow-up, she does the same for our notions of what constitutes a beautiful face. When I was a smooth-skinned and plump-faced teenager, she writes at the beginning of the book, I really wanted to look like the older European actresses I saw in the Italian and French films of the 1960s and '70s. Examining her own experiences with how society viewed her as she moved from child actor to adult, she recounts how her pride and self-esteem faltered when she received public backlash about her appearance. She describes the book as by no means an exhaustive exploration of older women's faces in our current society, but rather a series of snapshots that focus on the reasons for the negative attitudes regarding those faces. Instead, the book is a series of 47 short stories in which I have incorporated my experiences and feelings on the topic, and those of about 25 people I interviewed. Occasionally disjointed, the narrative is most impressive in the aggregate, as women at all stages of life acknowledge and sometimes transcend societal views about women's faces. By exploring the issue via multiple points of view, Bateman is able to show many of the reasons for the negative attitudes regarding those faces as well as the hypocrisy and double standards involved in such attitudes, especially in contrast with how aging men are often considered. Combining the author's intensely personal stories with relevant examples from the culture at large, the book is heartbreaking and hopeful, infuriating and triumphant. An engrossing look at an issue that continues to be problematic for millions of women every day. COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2021 Actress, writer, director, and producer Bateman (Fame: The Hijacking of Reality, 2018) defends old broads as she tours the front lines of the world's smallest battlefield--a woman's face. In 47 short narratives, Bateman reports on her experiences and insights as she chooses to let her face age naturally and adds stories based on interviews with many others across a range of ages and industries who, though bearing fictionalized names, represent true emotions and events. Reading this may feel like coming upon a roadside accident. You don't want to gawk, but you can't take your eyes away. You may even recognize your story. Both protest and paean, Bateman's chronicle advocates for a power shift away from buying into the incessant selling of cosmetic perfection and toward the recognition that a woman's unaltered face is a record of earned intelligence, wisdom, and confidence. Bateman issues a call to invert the age-old paradigm, stop stoking shame about signs of growing older, and name the ultimate accessory that is powerfully individual to each woman, an aging face that has faced life. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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