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Facing the Mirror

Frida Kerner Furman
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aging and gender studies
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Bat Mitzvah
Bat Mitzvah Ceremonies
Beauty Salon
Beauty Shop
beauty shop culture
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Coherent Image
community formation research
Contemporary Society
Cosmetic Surgery
Critical Analytic Category
Double Chins
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Fall Participant
feminist ethnography
Independent Groups
Informal Person
intersectionality in everyday life
Jewish Middle Class Women
Jewish older women
La La La
Le Sueur
Meridel Le Sueur
National Women's Studies Association
Older Jewish Woman
Oppositional Gaze
power dynamics in care work
qualitative social analysis
Rasp
Religious Congregations
resistance narratives in beauty salons
social morality
Unintentional Community
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415915243
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jun 1997
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these experiences which reveals as much about society as about older women themselves. Women's narratives expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the ways women perceive reality, make choices and live in their worlds.
About Frida Furman | Frida Kerner Furman

Frida Kerner Furman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University and is author of BeyondYiddishkeit: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in a ReformSynagogue.

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