Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture
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,...
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Top tags: culture-u.s., fashion and beauty, gender studies, judaism, personal narratives
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