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Contextualizing older women's body images — time dimensions, multiple reference groups, and age codings of appearance
Author(s)	Clary Krekula
Journal title	Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, no 1, January-February 2016
Publisher	Routledge, January-February 2016
Pages	pp 58-76 (IN: Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, nos 1-3, 2016)
Source	http://www.tandfonline,com
Keywords	Older women ; Physical characteristics [elderly] ; Biological ageing ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; Sweden.
Annotation	The article sheds light on older women's body images and considers assumptions that women's ageing is more painful and shameful than men's ageing, since men are not expected to live up to youthful beauty norms - the so-called double standard of ageing hypothesis. Based on 12 qualitative interviews with women from the age of 75 from the Stockholm, Sweden area, the author argues that older women have access to a double perspective of beauty, which means that they can relate to both youthful and age-related beauty norms. The results also illustrate that women's body image is created in a context where previous body images are central, and that this time perspective can contribute toward a positive body image. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-160805248 A
Classmark	BD: BA: BH: DP: 3DP: 76P
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