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Abigail Brooks draws out rich nuanced voices on issues women of all ages care about, and is sensitive to a host of different perspectives. She remains balanced and neutral throughout the book, but she ably shows that the women who undergo anti-aging procedures end up pathologizing aging bodies and reinforcing the invisibility older women face in an ageist society. Thus, Brooks argues, the dynamics of ageism are only heightened by our surgical world. Readable, timely, and important. -- Meika Loe,author of Aging Our Way
This book identifies one of the most significant, but mostly ignored, changes in womens lives in the 21st Century: the re-definition of anti-aging technology, including surgery, as normal maintenance of the female body. Brooks manages to sympathetically portray women who choose to modify their aging bodies and those who choose to age naturally, but she also maintains a critical analysis of a sexist culture that devalues women as soon as they are no longer a feast for the male gaze. This is a book just as much for your female friends as for social scientists, an important read for us all. -- Barbara Risman,author of Families as They Really Are
A must-read glimpse into a uniquely contemporary aspect of ageism. * Choice *

The Ways Women Age Using and Refusing Cosmetic

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      Publisher New York University Press
      Published 7 March 2017
      ISBN-13 9780814724101
      978-0814724101
      ISBN-10 0814724108
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      Sociology

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Abigail Brooks draws out rich nuanced voices on issues women of all ages care about, and is sensitive to a host of different perspectives. She remains balanced and neutral throughout the book, but she ably shows that the women who undergo anti-aging procedures end up pathologizing aging bodies and reinforcing the invisibility older women face in an ageist society. Thus, Brooks argues, the dynamics of ageism are only heightened by our surgical world. Readable, timely, and important. -- Meika Loe,author of Aging Our Way
      This book identifies one of the most significant, but mostly ignored, changes in womens lives in the 21st Century: the re-definition of anti-aging technology, including surgery, as normal maintenance of the female body. Brooks manages to sympathetically portray women who choose to modify their aging bodies and those who choose to age naturally, but she also maintains a critical analysis of a sexist culture that devalues women as soon as they are no longer a feast for the male gaze. This is a book just as much for your female friends as for social scientists, an important read for us all. -- Barbara Risman,author of Families as They Really Are
      A must-read glimpse into a uniquely contemporary aspect of ageism. * Choice *

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