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A New Ethic of 'Older': Subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization

A New Ethic of 'Older': Subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization

Garnham, Bridget

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1472414608
ISBN13: 9781472414601
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 5 2016
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book mobilizes considerable theoretical and empirical resources to interrogate and problematize the social category of 'older' in the context of cosmetic surgery. It disrupts and critiques dominant renderings of 'older' and suggests that contemporary aesthetic and ethical values inform a new ethic of 'older'. Drawing inspiration from Michel Foucault's work on ethics, the book proposes that cosmetic surgery can be understood as a contemporary practice of self-care that transforms subjectivity in relation to a desirable mode of being.

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