Format:
1 online resource (122 pages)
ISBN:
9781442207615
Series Statement:
Diversity and Aging v.1
Content:
Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- Introduction -- 2 -- Theorizing the Aging and Aged Woman's Face, Body, and Embodied Experience -- 3 -- Embodied Appearance in Later Life: What Older Women Have to Say -- 4 -- Anti-aging Medicine, Wrinkles, and the Moral Imperative to Modify the Aging Face -- 5 -- Imaging Aging: Media Messages and the Perspectives of Older Women -- 6 -- Women and Aging: The Face of the Future -- References -- About the Author.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442207608
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442207608
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=634199
