The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention

The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention
ISBN-10
0814724051
ISBN-13
9780814724057
Category
Social Science
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
2017-03-07
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Abigail T. Brooks

Description

Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, the author investigates the anti-aging craze from the perspective of women themselves, examining the rapidly changing cultural attitudes, pressures, and expectations of female 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.

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