Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture

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Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture

by Frida Ke Furman
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This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Beauty Shop Culture 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 books 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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  • Jillian

    jillian says

    Most definitely look for it! Although this ethnographic study of weekly patrons at a neighborhood beauty salon concerns mostly older, Jewish women there is much that is relevant to women of all ages within Western culture; for we all age and will likely experience many of the same social challenges the women in this study face.

    posted Friday, May 9 2008

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  • Aunt J

    aunt j says

    This sounds like a great book. Am I right? Should I look for it and read it?

    posted Friday, May 9 2008

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