Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Theories of Contemporary Culture)
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Gerontology
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780253212368
- ISBN-10
- 0253212367
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Theories of Contemporary Culture)
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ISBN: 0253212367
Author: Woodward, Kathleen
Condition: New
Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by a culture. Yet unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have received little sustained attention. Central to Figuring Age is the crucial question of how women are aged by culture. How are older women represented in a visual culture that is dominated by images of youth in television, film, and life performance? How do psychoanalysis, rejuvenation therapy and hormone replacement therapy, the fashion system, cosmetic surgery, and midlife bodybuilding shape our views of aging as well as of the older body itself? What is the "timing" of aging? To what extent is aging a culturally-induced trauma?
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