women, bodies, generations
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Woodward, Kathleen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Miller, Nancy K.
- Creator
- Russo, Mary
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Fuchs, Elinor
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- ouderen, hoogbejaarden, lichamen, vrouwbeelden, historisch, psychologie
- Description
- Age is given meaning by a culture. Unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have received little attention from Western culture. Central in 'Figuring Age' is the question of how women are aged by culture. Discussed is: the ages of women constructed in terms of the body and relations between generations: older women represented in a visual culture dominated by images of youth: psychoanalysis, rejuvenation therapy and hormone replacement therapy: the fashion system: cosmetic surgery and aging as a culturally induced trauma.