2. “i am what i am!”: the freedom of growing older “naturally”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: older women in cosmetic culture 1
6. 1. “i wanted to look like me again”: aging, identity, and cosmetic intervention 29
7. 2. “i am what i am!”: the freedom of growing older “naturally” 69
8. 3. “age changes you, but not like surgery”: refusing cosmetic intervention 96
9. 4. “can we just stop the clock here?”: promise and peril in the anti- aging explosion 119
10. 5. “why should i be the ugly one?”: social circles of intervention 140
11. 6. “it’s not in my world”: living as a natural ager 177
12. Conclusion: taking the body back 195
13. Epilogue 219
14. Appendix A: research methods 223
15. Appendix B: interview subjects 233
16. Notes 239
17. Index 267
18. About the author 279