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Author Hurd Clarke, Laura, 1969-

Title Facing age : women growing older in anti-aging culture / Laura Hurd Clarke.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2011]
©2011

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Description ix, 165 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Diversity and aging
Diversity and aging.
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.
Beauty, Personal.
Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
Aging -- Psychological aspects.
Aging -- Psychological aspects.
Middle-aged women -- Physiological aspects.
Middle-aged women.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Self-esteem in women.
Self-esteem in women.
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