Description |
ix, 165 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Diversity and aging
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Diversity and aging.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-157) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Beauty, Personal.
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Beauty, Personal. |
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Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
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Middle-aged women -- Psychology. |
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects. |
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Middle-aged women -- Physiological aspects.
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Middle-aged women. |
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) |
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Self-esteem in women.
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Self-esteem in women. |
ISBN |
9781442207592 cloth alkaline paper |
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1442207590 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781442207608 paperback alkaline paper |
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1442207604 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781442207615 electronic |
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1442207612 electronic |
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