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Women And Combat: Impediments To The Total Integration Of Women In The Military, Sylvia Marie Rafels
Women And Combat: Impediments To The Total Integration Of Women In The Military, Sylvia Marie Rafels
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Aging Beauty: The Adaptive Reconstruction Of The Aging Process In Women, Sheila Marie Bluhm
Aging Beauty: The Adaptive Reconstruction Of The Aging Process In Women, Sheila Marie Bluhm
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The youth-based, patriarchal culture in which we live bestows valuable status, power and prestige upon young, beautiful women. Within the standards of this society, the natural aging process progressively deteriorates a woman's beauty, and, therefore, her social worth. A vast network of media and societal messages prompt middle-aged women to react to this devaluation. Several pathways or behavioral alternatives are available as reactions, adaptive reconstructions, and/or the medicalization of the aging process in women. The goal of this sociological/gerontological exploratory research is to identify, examine, label, and categorize the multiple options available to midlife women.
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