Facing age [[electronic resource] ] : women growing older in anti-aging culture / / Laura Hurd Clarke

• Autore: Hurd Clarke Laura <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/613
• Soggetto topico: Beauty, Personal; Middle-aged women - Psychology; Aging - Psychological aspects; Middle-aged women - Physiological aspects; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Self-esteem in women
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Ch01. Introduction; Ch02. Theorizing the Aging and Aged Woman's Face, Body, and Embodied Experience; Ch03. Embodied Appearance in Later Life: What Older Women Have to Say; Ch04. Anti-aging Medicine, Wrinkles, and the Moral Imperative to Modify the Aging Face; Ch05. Imaging Aging: Media Messages and the Perspectives of Older Women; Ch06. Women and Aging: The Face of the Future; References; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: "Facing Age" examines the relationship between ageing and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke brings alive feminist theories about ageing, beauty work, femininity, and the body.
• Titolo autorizzato: Facing age
• ISBN: 1-282-92265-3; 9786612922657; 1-4422-0761-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785328303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Diversity and aging.