Facing the Mirror

出版者:Routledge

作者:Frida Kerner Furman

页数:232

出版时间:1997-06-25

价格:USD 35.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780415915243

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.