05564nam 22005535 450 991016033480332120200608045044.00-8147-2523-610.18574/9780814725238(CKB)3710000001025534(MiAaPQ)EBC4714285(OCoLC)969740170(MdBmJHUP)muse65740(DE-B1597)548398(DE-B1597)9780814725238(EXLCZ)99371000000102553420200608h20172017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Ways Women Age Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention /Abigail T. BrooksNew York, NY : New York University Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (224 pages)0-8147-2410-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: older women in cosmetic culture -- 1. “i wanted to look like me again”: aging, identity, and cosmetic intervention -- 2. “i am what i am!”: the freedom of growing older “naturally” -- 3. “age changes you, but not like surgery”: refusing cosmetic intervention -- 4. “can we just stop the clock here?”: promise and peril in the anti- aging explosion -- 5. “why should i be the ugly one?”: social circles of intervention -- 6. “it’s not in my world”: living as a natural ager -- Conclusion: taking the body back -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: research methods -- Appendix B: interview subjects -- Notes -- Index -- About the author The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention.What is it like to be a woman growing older in a culture where you cannot go to the doctor, open a magazine, watch television, or surf the internet without encountering products and procedures that are designed to make you look younger? What do women have to say about their decision to embrace cosmetic anti-aging procedures? And, alternatively, how do women come to decide to grow older without them? In the United States today, women are the overwhelming consumers of cosmetic anti-aging surgeries and technologies. And while not all women undergo these procedures, their exposure to them is almost inevitable.Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, Abigail T. Brooks investigates the anti-aging craze from the perspective of women themselves, examining the rapidly changing cultural attitudes, pressures, and expectations of female aging. Drawn from in-depth interviews with women in the United States who choose, and refuse, to have cosmetic anti-aging procedures, The Ways Women Age provides a fresh understanding of how today’s women feel about aging. The women’s stories in this book are personal biographies that explore identity and body image and are reflexively shaped by beauty standards, expectations of femininity, and an increasingly normalized climate of cosmetic anti-aging intervention. The Ways Women Age offers a critical perspective on how women respond to 21st century expectations of youth and beauty.The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention.What is it like to be a woman growing older in a culture where you cannot go to the doctor, open a magazine, watch television, or surf the internet without encountering products and procedures that are designed to make you look younger? What do women have to say about their decision to embrace cosmetic anti-aging procedures? And, alternatively, how do women come to decide to grow older without them? In the United States today, women are the overwhelming consumers of cosmetic anti-aging surgeries and technologies. And while not all women undergo these procedures, their exposure to them is almost inevitable.Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, Abigail T. Brooks investigates the anti-aging craze from the perspective of women themselves, examining the rapidly changing cultural attitudes, pressures, and expectations of female aging. Drawn from in-depth interviews with women in the United States who choose, and refuse, to have cosmetic anti-aging procedures, The Ways Women Age provides a fresh understanding of how today’s women feel about aging. The women’s stories in this book are personal biographies that explore identity and body image and are reflexively shaped by beauty standards, expectations of femininity, and an increasingly normalized climate of cosmetic anti-aging intervention. The Ways Women Age offers a critical perspective on how women respond to 21st century expectations of youth and beauty.Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)Older womenAgingPsychological aspectsBody image in womenSurgery, PlasticSocial aspectsElectronic books.Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)Older women.AgingPsychological aspects.Body image in women.Surgery, PlasticSocial aspects.305.26/2Brooks Abigail T., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1245494DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910160334803321The Ways Women Age2888622UNINA