LEADER 05564nam 22005535 450 001 9910160334803321 005 20200608045044.0 010 $a0-8147-2523-6 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814725238 035 $a(CKB)3710000001025534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4714285 035 $a(OCoLC)969740170 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65740 035 $a(DE-B1597)548398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814725238 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001025534 100 $a20200608h20172017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Ways Women Age $eUsing and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention /$fAbigail T. Brooks 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 311 $a0-8147-2410-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: older women in cosmetic culture -- $t1. ?i wanted to look like me again?: aging, identity, and cosmetic intervention -- $t2. ?i am what i am!?: the freedom of growing older ?naturally? -- $t3. ?age changes you, but not like surgery?: refusing cosmetic intervention -- $t4. ?can we just stop the clock here??: promise and peril in the anti- aging explosion -- $t5. ?why should i be the ugly one??: social circles of intervention -- $t6. ?it?s not in my world?: living as a natural ager -- $tConclusion: taking the body back -- $tEpilogue -- $tAppendix A: research methods -- $tAppendix B: interview subjects -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the author 330 $aThe 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. 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