The Ways Women Age : : Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention / / Abigail T. Brooks.
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 desi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: older women in cosmetic culture
- 1. “i wanted to look like me again”: aging, identity, and cosmetic intervention
- 2. “i am what i am!”: the freedom of growing older “naturally”
- 3. “age changes you, but not like surgery”: refusing cosmetic intervention
- 4. “can we just stop the clock here?”: promise and peril in the anti- aging explosion
- 5. “why should i be the ugly one?”: social circles of intervention
- 6. “it’s not in my world”: living as a natural ager
- Conclusion: taking the body back
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: research methods
- Appendix B: interview subjects
- Notes
- Index
- About the author