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Informationen zum Autor By Laura Hurd Clarke Klappentext The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging 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. Although the women in the book express discontent about their aging visage, they also emphasize the importance of functional abilities and suggest that appearance becomes less central in later life.Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body. The book also discusses medicine and the aging appearance, with interviews from medical providers and women about treatments such as Botox injections and injectable fillers. This book makes an important and timely contribution to the discussion of gendered ageism and older women's experiences of growing older in a youth-obsessed culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chapter 1: IntroductionOverview of the BookMethods and SamplesStrengths and Limitations of the StudiesChapter 2: Theorizing the Aging and Aged Woman's Face, Body, and Embodied ExperienceWomen and Body ImageWomen and the Feminine Beauty IdealBeauty Ideology and Social PositioningAgeism and Beauty IdeologyOlder Women and EmbodimentMedicalization and the Aging Female BodyTheoretically Situating This BookChapter 3: Embodied Appearance in Later Life: What Older Women Have to SayOlder Women, Aging Bodied, and Body ImageThe Power of the Reflected ImageThe Losing Battle of Weight GainGrey Matters: Older Women and their HairShifting Priorities and Pragmatic AcceptanceSummary and ConclusionsChapter 4: Anti-aging Medicine, Wrinkles, and the Moral Imperative to Modify the Aging FaceThe Rise of Non-surgical Cosmetic ProceduresNon-surgical Cosmetic Procedures and Aging: The Perspective of PhysiciansInterviews with Women before the Rise of Non-surgical Cosmetic ProceduresInterviews with Women after the Development of Non-surgical Cosmetic ProceduresSummary and ConclusionsChapter 5: Imaging Aging: Media Messages and the Perspectives of Older WomenBeauty and Aging in Print AdvertisementsOlder Women Reflect on the Body and Face of Beauty in the Media"Aging is a Serious Problem:" Women, Ageism Discourses, and Beauty WorkSummary and ConclusionsChapter 6: Women and Aging: The Face of the Future ConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Author...
