Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture - Brossura

Furman, Frida Kerner

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415915244 ISBN 13: 9780415915243

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these experiences which reveals as much about society as about older women themselves. Women's narratives expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the ways women perceive reality, make choices and live in their worlds.

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L'autore

Frida Kerner Furman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University and is author of Beyond Yiddishkeit: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in a Reform Synagogue.

Product Description

This ethnographic study of a neighbourhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. The book seeks to give voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. Within the text, these older, mostly Jewish, women articulate their experiences of bodily self-preservation, feminity, ageing and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415915244
• ISBN 13: 9780415915243
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 232