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Laura Hurd Clarke

Facing Age

Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

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The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the book express discontent about their aging visage, they also emphasize the importance of functional abilities and suggest that appearance becomes less central in later life.Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4422-0760-8
  • EAN: 9781442207608
  • Produktnummer: 7744643
  • Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 176 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 265 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 265

Über den Autor


Laura Hurd Clarke is associate professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Investigator.

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