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?
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!