using and refusing cosmetic intervention
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brooks, Abigail T.
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- ouderdom, uiterlijk, identiteit, lichamen, vrouwbeelden, plastische chirurgie, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten
- 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.