Figuring Age Women Bodies Generations Theories of Contemporary Culture
by Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations
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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?
Product Details
- Indiana University Press Brand
- Mar 22, 1999 Pub Date:
- 9780253212368 ISBN-13:
- 0253212367 ISBN-10:
- 392.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 0.9 in * 6.1 in * 9.1 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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