The ways women age [electronic resource] : using and refusing cosmetic intervention / Abigail T. Brooks.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction: older women in cosmetic culture
- "I wanted to look like me again": aging, identity, and cosmetic intervention
- "I am what I am!": The freedom of growing older 'naturally'
- "Age changes you, but not like surgery": refusing cosmetic intervention
- "Can we just stop the clock here?" Promise and peril in the anti-aging explosion
- "Why should I be the ugly one?": choosing intervention
- "It's not in my world': living as a natural ager
- Conclusion: taking the body back
- Epilogue.