Facing Age Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging

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 the body.

Laura Hurd Clarke is associate professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia and is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Investigator.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Overview of the Book	p. 5
Methods and Samples	p. 8
Strengths and Limitations of the Studies	p. 16
Theorizing the Aging and Aged Woman's Face, Body, and Embodied Experience	p. 19
Women and Body Image	p. 20
Women and the Feminine Beauty Ideal	p. 21
Beauty Ideology and Social Positioning	p. 24
Ageism and Beauty Ideology	p. 28
Older Women and Embodiment	p. 31
Medicalization and the Aging Female Body	p. 34
Theoretically Situating This Book	p. 35
Embodied Appearance in Later Life: What Older Women Have to Say	p. 37
Older Women, Aging Bodies, and Body Image	p. 38
The Power of the Reflected Image	p. 43
The Losing Battle of Weight Gain	p. 45
Gray Matters: Older Women and Their Hair	p. 53
Shifting Priorities and Pragmatic Acceptance	p. 61
Summary and Conclusions	p. 63
Anti-aging Medicine, Wrinkles, and the Moral Imperative to Modify the Aging Face	p. 69
The Rise of Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures	p. 70
Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures and Aging: The Perspectives of Physicians	p. 74
Interviews with Women before the Rise of Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures	p. 82
Interviews with Women after the Development of Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures	p. 87
Summary and Conclusions	p. 96
Imaging Aging: Media Messages and the Perspectives of Older Women	p. 103
Beauty and Aging in Print Advertisements	p. 106
Older Women Reflect on the Body and Face of Beauty in the Media	p. 109
ôAging Is a Serious Problemö: Women, Ageism Discourses, and Beauty Work	p. 118
Summary and Conclusions	p. 126
Women and Aging: The Face of the Future	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 138
References	p. 141
Index	p. 159
About the Author	p. 165
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