Contextualizing older women's body images: Time dimensions, multiple reference groups, and age codings of appearance

The article sheds light on older women's body images and problematizes assumptions that women's aging is more painful and shameful than men's aging since men are not expected to live up to youthful beauty norms, the so-called double standard of aging hypothesis. Based on 12 qualitativ...

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Published in:Journal of women & aging 2016, Vol.28 (1), p.58-67
Main Author: Krekula, Clary
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Adaptation, Psychological
Age
Age coding
Age groups
Aged
Aging
Aging - psychology
Attractiveness
Beauty
beauty norms
body appearance
body dissatisfaction
Body image
Body Image - psychology
body satisfaction
Discourse
Discourse analysis
double standard of aging
embodied aging
Female
gendered aging
Human body
Humans
Internal-External Control
material-semiotic body
Older people
Reference groups
Self image
Social Adjustment
Social Values
Sociologi
Sociology
Sweden
Women
women's aging
Women's Health
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Age
Age coding
Age groups
Aged
Aging
Aging - psychology
Attractiveness
Beauty
beauty norms
body appearance
body dissatisfaction
Body image
Body Image - psychology
body satisfaction
Discourse
Discourse analysis
double standard of aging
embodied aging
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gendered aging
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Humans
Internal-External Control
material-semiotic body
Older people
Reference groups
Self image
Social Adjustment
Social Values
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Sociology
Sweden
Women
women's aging
Women's Health
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