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“If I had lots of money… I’d have a body makeover:” Managing the Aging Body
- Social Forces
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 88, Number 3, March 2010
- pp. 1003-1020
- 10.1353/sof.0.0302
- Article
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This article uses a feminist framework to explore embodied aging by analyzing indepth formal interviews with 57 men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Emphasizing intersectionality, I focus on the interpretations and strategies these men and women use to make sense of their aging bodies. Their aging corporeal experiences allow me to examine ageist notions about aging and being old and to explore how this thinking, which valorizes youthfulness, shapes their aging experiences.