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The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNYU Press
- Publication dateMarch 7, 2017
- File size775 KB
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"A must-read glimpse into a uniquely contemporary aspect of ageism." ― Choice
"This book identifies one of the most significant, but mostly ignored, changes in womens lives in the 21st Century: the re-definition of anti-aging technology, including surgery, as normal maintenance of the female body. Brooks manages to sympathetically portray women who choose to modify their aging bodies and those who choose to age naturally, but she also maintains a critical analysis of a sexist culture that devalues women as soon as they are no longer a feast for the male gaze. This is a book just as much for your female friends as for social scientists, an important read for us all." -- Barbara Risman,author of Families as They Really Are
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- ASIN : B06W52471F
- Publisher : NYU Press (March 7, 2017)
- Publication date : March 7, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 775 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 293 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,749,297 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #167 in Gerontology (Kindle Store)
- #781 in Gerontology Social Sciences
- #3,633 in Women's Studies (Kindle Store)
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It is an illuminating and insightful look at women's experiences as they negotiate growing older in a culture critical of the natural process of aging, as the author makes clear. The authentic voices of individual women interviewed in depth are represented with attention and respect, and I could find my own feelings represented in their words.
Fine writing and careful research!
This book interviews women exclusively and as a female, I appreciate the inputs from both sides.
I also like reading about the author's own take on her aging.
Equally painful and empowering, I will recommend it to all ladies who have had self defeating thoughts about their appearances.
*I got a free copy in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley