Facing Age: Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

by Laura Hurd Clarke

Book Overview

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. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442207604
• ISBN13: 9781442207608
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary