Older women's relations to bodily appearance: The embodiment of social and biological conditions of existence

Ageing and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 883-902

  Dumas, Alex ^a   Laberge, Suzanne ^b   Straka, Silvia M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bodily appearance; Habitus; Older women; Pierre Bourdieu

Indexed keywords

AGING; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 33646674282     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X05004010     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Beausoleil, N. 1998. Corps, santé, apparence et vieillissement dans les énoncés de femmes francophones en Ontario [Body, health, appearance and ageing in narratives of French speaking women of Ontario]. Reflets, 4, 1, 5374.
2. Boltanski, L. 1971. Les usages sociaux du corps [The social uses of the body]. Annales: Economie, Société, Civilisation, 26, 1, 205-33.
3. Bordo, S. 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. University of California Press, Los Angeles.
4. Bourdieu, P. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
5. Bourdieu, P. 1998. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Polity, Cambridge.
6. Bourdieu, P. 1999. Understanding. In Bourdieu, P. (ed.), The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society. Polity, Cambridge, 607-26.
7. Coté, M. 1996. Devenir vieille: L'étude du processus de vieillissement de quelques femmes québécoises [Becoming old: The study of the ageing process of several women from Québec]. Sciences Sociales et Santé, 14, 3, 47-65.
8. Dannefer, D. and Uhlenberg, P. 1999. Paths of the life course: A typology. In Bengtson, V. L. and Schaie, K. W. (eds), Handbook of Theories of Aging. Springer Publishing Company, New York, 356-85
9. Featherstone, M. 1987. Leisure, symbolic power and the life course. In Horne, J., Jary, D. and Tomlinson, A. (eds), Sport, Leisure and Social Relations. Routledge and Kegan Paul, New York, 113-38.
10. Featherstone, M. 1991. The body in consumer culture. In Featherstone, M., Hepworth, M. and Turner, B, (eds), The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory. Sage, London, 170-96.
11. Featherstone, M. and Hepworth, M. 1991. The mask of ageing and the postmodern life course. In Featherstone, M., Hepworth, M. and Turner, B. (eds), The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory. Sage, London, 371-89.
12. Furman, F. K. 1997. Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture. Routledge, New-York.
13. Hagestad, G. O. 1990. Social perspectives on the life course. In Binstock, R. H. and George, L. K. (eds), Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. Third edition, Academic, Toronto, 151-68.
14. Hockey, J. and James, A. 1993. Growing Up and Growing Old: Ageing and Dependency in the Life Course. Sage, London.
15. Hurd, L. C. 2000. Older women's body image and embodied experience: An exploration. Journal of Women and Aging, 112, 3/4, 77-97.
16. Hurd Clarke, L. 2002a. Beauty in later life: Older women's perceptions of physical attractiveness. Canadian Journal of Aging, 211, 3, 429 42.
17. Hurd Clarke, L. 2002b. Older women's perceptions of ideal body weights: the tensions between health and appearance motivations for weight loss. Ageing & Society, 22, 751-73.
18. Laberge, S. 2003. Liens entre pratique d'activités physiques et santé des Québécoises: Les logiques sociales de trois groupes d'âge [Connections between physical activity and health practices of women from Québec: The social logic of three age groups]. Chronique Féministe, 85, 75-81.
19. Laberge, S., Dumas, A., Rail, G., Dallaire, H. and Voyer, P. 2003. Les conceptions du 'bien-vieifir' d'aînées de milieux populaires et favorisés [The conceptions of ageing-well of older women from disadvantaged and privileged neighbourhoods]. Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 24, 3, 71-93.
20. Laberge, S. and Kay, J. 2002. Bourdieu's sociocultural theory and sports practice. In Maguire, J. and Young, K (eds), Theory, Sport and Society. Elsevier, Oxford, 239-66.
21. Maisonneuve, J. and Bruchon-Schweitzer, M. 1981. Modèles du corps et psychologie Esthétique [Models of the Body and the Psychology of Aesthetics]. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris.
22. Molloy, B. L. and Herzberger, S. D. 1998. Body image and self-esteem: A comparison of African-American and Caucasian women. Sex Roles, 38, 7/8, 631-43.
23. Öberg, P. and Tornstam. L. 1999. Body images among men and women of different ages. Ageing & Society, 19, 629-44.
24. Pociello, C. 1981. Sport et société: Approche socio-culturelle des pratiques [Sport and Society: Socio- Cultural Approaches to Practice]. Vigot, Paris.
25. Shilling, C. 1993. The Body and Social Theory. Sage, London.
26. Swartz, D. 1997. Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
27. Tunaley, J. R., Walsh, S. and Nicolson, P. 1999. 'I'm not bad for my age': The meaning of body size and eating in the lives of older women. Ageing & Society 19, 741-59.
28. Turner, B. S. 1995. Aging and identity: Some reflections on the somatization of the self. In Featherstone, M. and Wernick, A. (eds), Images of Aging: Cultural Representation of Later Life. Routledge, New York, 245-60.