The ways women age - Beauty politics
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The ways women age: Laurie Taylor talks to Abigail Brooks, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Providence College USA, and author of a study which asks why women choose or reject cosmetic anti ageing proceedures. Also, beauty politics in the Neoliberal age. Ros Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City University, discusses the ways in which women are required to be 'aesthetic entrepreneurs', maintaining a constant vigilance about their appearance. They're joined by Rachel Wood, Research Associate in the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics at Sheffield Hallam University. Revised repeat.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:35.0 | I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Four's thinking aloud. |
| 0:42.0 | Should women allow themselves BBC Radio Ford's thinking aloud. |
| 0:43.0 | Should women allow themselves to age gracefully? |
| 0:47.2 | Should they resist all those cosmetic and surgical invitations |
| 0:50.7 | to artificially roll back the years? |
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