New Ethic of ''Older'' - Subjectivity, Surgery, and Self-Stylization

List of contents

1. Introducing a New Ethic of ‘Older’
2. Designing ‘Older’ Rather than Denying Ageing
3. The Fractured ‘Older’ Subject at the Limits of ‘Ageing’
4. To Look Better not Younger
5. Ageing Disgracefully and Becoming ‘Older’
6. Concluding Cuts

About the author

Bridget Garnham is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Change within the School of Psychology, Social Work, and Social Policy at the University of South Australia, Australia.

Summary

This book mobilizes considerable theoretical and empirical resources to interrogate and problematize the social category of ‘older’ in the context of cosmetic surgery. It disrupts and critiques dominant renderings of ‘older’ and suggests that contemporary aesthetic and ethical values inform a new ethic of ‘older’.

Product details

• Authors: Bridget Garnham, Bridget (University of South Australia Garnham, Garnham Bridget
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367349080
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34908-0
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society; Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Age groups: the elderly / old age