Frida Furman

Facing the Mirror (eBook, ePUB)

Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136785757
• Artikelnr.: 38269466

Autorenporträt

Frida Kerner Furman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University and is author of BeyondYiddishkeit: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in a ReformSynagogue.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter Chapter One
Women's Territory
Community and the Ethic of Care at Julie's International Salon
Chapter Two
The Witch in the Mirror
Feminine Beauty and Its Imperatives
Chapter Three
"What's My Alternative?"
Aging and Its Challenges
Chapter Four
"The Cheese Stands Alone"
Women in Relation to Work, Caring, and the Family
Chapter Five
Energetic Anger
An Invitation to Resistance