کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1081750 1486763 2016 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Old, down and out? Appearance, body work and positive ageing among elderly South Korean women
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
قدیمی، آس و پاس ؟ ظاهر ،کار بدنی و مثبت پیری در میان سالمندان زن کره جنوبی
کلمات کلیدی
ظاهر فیزیکی; کره جنوبی; زنان مسن; کار بدنی; جراحی زیبایی; پیری بدن
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی طب سالمندان و علم پیری شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Body work on the ageing body was utilised strategically and in highly personalised ways.
• Appearance and everyday beauty practices play a crucial part in maintaining positive selves.
• Maintenance of positive appearance was understood in the context of showing respect to others.
• Sustaining positive appearance in later life functions an act of ritual citizenship.

This article offers an as yet unexplored dimension of our current understanding of the ageing body in the context of contemporary South Korea. Drawing on interviews with twenty elderly women living in the greater Seoul metropolitan area, this article explores the role of appearance, body work, and the presentation of self in the women's everyday lived experiences. Existing research on the ageing female body in South Korea has primarily focused on the so-called noin munjae (‘the elderly issue’) discourse, within which the ageing body is framed as passive, undesirable, or out-of-control. Contrary to this, the elderly women's own narratives of everyday beauty practices suggest that the act of sustaining well-ordered appearance in later life allows for the enforcing of positive selves in the context of personal beauty and body work. Maintaining a positive appearance was shown to play an important part of their everyday lives, and functioned as a ritual of not only presenting an appearance that signified control over the ageing body, but to continue to enjoy it. The carefully calculated engagement with various non-surgical and surgical beauty practices also emerged as an embodied practice of mediating intersubjective social encounters through which self-esteem was engendered by evidencing the self's efforts to show respect to others. The findings of this study challenge dominant discourses in the west which present body work on the ageing female body as primarily self-indulgent, or driven by anxiety about the body's inability to fit within existing youthful beauty ideals.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Aging Studies - Volume 38, August 2016, Pages 6–15
نویسندگان
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