Emerging geographies of disciplining the ageing body: practising cosmetic technologies in the aesthetic clinic

作者: Katherine Morton

DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.939151

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摘要: Despite attention to the body over last two decades, there has been a lack of geographical consideration emotional and embodied contexts ageing. In this article I argue that examination multiple ways in which ageing is experienced modified offers productive insights into perspectives on gender, health technology. This introduces cosmetic anti-ageing practices as form ‘management’ ‘modification’ body. Anti-ageing have become increasingly ubiquitous decade are significant driver growth innovation industry. their prevalence, however, knowledges, spaces associated with modification draws ethnographic interview data from extensive fieldwork conducted range aesthetic clinics South-West England, exploring emotional, spatial encoun...