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Facing age : women growing older in anti-aging culture /

Examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness and brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hurd Clarke, Laura, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011.
Colección:Diversity and aging.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theorizing the aging and aged woman's face, body, and embodied experience
  • Embodied appearance in later life : what older women have to say
  • Anti-aging medicine, wrinkles, and the moral imperative to modify the aging face
  • Imaging aging : media messages and the perspectives of older women
  • Women and aging : the face of the future.