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E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten
Subjectivity, Surgery and Self-Stylization
E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten
Reihe: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
ISBN: 978-1-317-18732-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Through its themes of subjectivity, surgery and self-stylisation this book critically examines the cultural constraints and incitements that shape the practice of cosmetic surgery by older people. The book problematizes anti-ageing discourses to provide a nuanced descriptive, ethical and political reading of ‘older’ identity politics nested within the contemporary ethico-political terrain of self-care.
A New Ethic of ‘Older’ aims to de-territorialize the ‘older’ subject from normative discourses of ageing and theorize becoming ‘older’. Providing evidence of an active cultural politics of ‘older’ emerging from the critically reflexive engagement of older people with cosmetic surgery, the book argues that this engagement constitutes a cutting critique of ageing discourses enmeshed in an aesthetic mode of subjectivation that underpins what Foucault termed ‘a new ethics of old age’.
The book will appeal to those in the fields of Cultural Gerontology, Ageing Studies, Critical Psychology, Sociology and Cultural Geography. The methodological approach will be of interest to academics and students exploring the application of Foucault’s work on care of the self to contemporary contexts and practices.
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A New Ethic of ‘Older’ aims to de-territorialize the ‘older’ subject from normative discourses of ageing and theorize becoming ‘older’. Providing evidence of an active cultural politics of ‘older’ emerging from the critically reflexive engagement of older people with cosmetic surgery, the book argues that this engagement constitutes a cutting critique of ageing discourses enmeshed in an aesthetic mode of subjectivation that underpins what Foucault termed ‘a new ethics of old age’.
The book will appeal to those in the fields of Cultural Gerontology, Ageing Studies, Critical Psychology, Sociology and Cultural Geography. The methodological approach will be of interest to academics and students exploring the application of Foucault’s work on care of the self to contemporary contexts and practices.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introducing a New Ethic of ‘Older’
2. Designing ‘Older’ Rather than Denying Ageing
3. The Fractured ‘Older’ Subject at the Limits of ‘Ageing’
4. To Look Better not Younger
5. Ageing Disgracefully and Becoming ‘Older’
6. Concluding Cuts
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