Index

Naomi Woodspring (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)

Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty

ISBN: 978-1-78754-236-5, eISBN: 978-1-78743-824-8

Publication date: 1 October 2018

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Woodspring, N. (2018), "Index", Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 273-283. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-824-820181011

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Copyright © 2018 Naomi Woodspring


INDEX

Acceptance
, 102, 105–106

and ambivalence
, 235–236

face
, 63

surprise and
, 106–107

women on appearance
, 65–66

After Ninety (1977)
, 229

Age

appropriate
, 243–244

coding
, 137

limits
, 137

and vivid beauty
, 229–230

See also Aging

Ageism and appearance
, 189

‘Ageless Style,’
, 31

Age-related change
, 142

Aging

appearance
, 100–102, 128–129, 149, 190

change and successful
, 234–235

comparative differences
, 110–112

continuity and perspective
, 120–121

cosmetics and
, 51, 89

face acceptance
, 63

faces
, 188

familial sense of
, 112

gracefully/disgracefully
, 51

marker
, 109

media images of
, 191

overshadows gender
, 105

sign of
, 116

skin
, 122–123, 164

societal expectations for
, 139

and time
, 104

See also Reflection of aging

Aging beauty
, 202–203, 207

physical features
, 203

Aging-embodied changes
, 49

Aliveness
, 131, 200, 205, 207–208, 212

Allure magazine
, 248

Ambivalence

acceptance and
, 105, 132, 236

aging identity
, 145

passion for life
, 235–236

American Beauty
, 40

Ancient mirrors
, 32

Androgenetic alopecia
, 115–116

Animation

and cartoons, stereotyping
, 28–29

eyes, and juiciness
, 211–212

Anti-aging cosmetics
, 57

Anti-aging procedures
, 49

Appearance
, 2–3, 26, 105

ageism and
, 189

aging
, 100–102, 106, 115, 128–129

beauty
, 13, 136

cultural notions of
, 39

health monitoring
, 156

and identity
, 122

morality and
, 51

race and ethnicity
, 107

research
, 52–53

time
, 104

women
, 45

Appearance of beauty

aging appearance
, 190

animation, eyes, and juiciness
, 211–212

arrivedness and zest
, 199–200

beauty of youth
, 194–199

engagement with the world
, 204

exotic
, 191–194

glow, light, and warmth
, 206–208

joy and enjoy
, 210

lifetime habits
, 219–225

men are rugged
, 202

radiance
, 205–206

relational beauty

changing priorities
, 212–213

face you want to return to
, 217–219

meaning and connection
, 213–215

shared history
, 215–217

research
, 189–190

standards
, 203

style and kind eyes
, 200–202

vital life, presence, and luster
, 208–210

women are beautiful
, 202

Aristocracy
, 42

Asceticism
, 42

Assumption and becoming, passion for life
, 246–247

Athleticism
, 41

Attendant vulnerabilities
, 188

Attitudes toward death
, 171

Attractiveness
, 3, 188

Baby Boomers, Time and Aging Bodies (2016)
, 4

Baldness
, 115–118

Beautification
, 46, 74, 92, 100–101, 227

Beautiful everyday people
, 3

Beauty
, 3

animation, eyes and juiciness
, 211–212

appearance research
, 52–53

art and renaissance
, 55–57

cosmetics and fading beauty
, 57

engagement with world
, 204

fountain of youth
, 57–58

glow, light and warmth
, 206–208

Greek and Judeo-Christian notions and definitions
, 54–55

humanism and
, 54

joy and enjoy
, 210

mortality and
, 57–58

neuroscience
, 53–54

and passion for life
, 247

radiance
, 205–206

and relationships
, 213–215

routines
, 50–51

vital life, presence, and luster
, 208–210

Western cultural constructions
, 54

work
, 49–50

The Beauty Myth
, 45

Beauty of youth

age and beauty
, 195

attraction
, 195–197

quality of youth
, 195

visual perspective
, 197–199

young faces, aesthetics of
, 195

Beauvoir
, 47

Behavioral repercussions
, 27

Black hair care
, 85–86

Body, living with mortality
, 173–174

Boomers

adolescence and memory, importance
, 5–6

beyond
, 10–11

birth rates, times, and marketing
, 7

context, faces, and influencers
, 5

first wave of the postwar generation
, 6

influence on generation
, 8

A Bowl of Roses (2016)
, 156

Camera

Eastman Kodak Brownie box camera
, 37

eyes of
, 38–39

history
, 36–38

Celebrity

culture
, 30–31

marketing endorsements
, 31

Character, habitual faces
, 224–225

Cliché
, 205, 212–213

Clothing

gender- and youth-specific
, 41–42

and visibility
, 140–141

Commonality and generation
, 234

Confidence
, 63, 92, 100, 238–239

Corporate culture
, 18–19

Corporatism and the media police
, 242–243

Cosmetic(s)
, 80

and fading beauty
, 57

interventions
, 108

medical procedures
, 228

practices, invasive or non-invasive
, 31

surgery
, 50, 108

tycoons
, 36

use
, 148

Crisis of masculinity
, 41, 241

Cultural legacy
, 249

Cultural reference
, 102

Cypher
, 126

Daguerreotype
, 36–37

Daguerreotypist
, 37

Death

and beauty
, 231–232

within the family

bonus round
, 179–180

child
, 177–178

parents
, 175–177

masks
, 183–184

photos
, 172–173

Degree of reticence
, 147–148

Dementia films
, 30

Dictionary of Untranslatables (2014)
, 52

Disappointments in life, habitual faces
, 223

Disney animated films
, 29

Dressing up, men appearance
, 99–100

Dry skin, aging
, 88

Eastman Kodak Brownie box camera
, 37

Embodied manifestation
, 13

Embodiment
, 13

Embrace
, 66

Emotion, habitual faces
, 219

Emotional priorities
, 213

Emotional strength
, 100

Energy of youth
, 188

Engagement with world
, 204

Error of perception
, 230–231

Errors, in beauty recognition
, 230

Etched into/on skin, habitual faces
, 220

Exceptionalism
, 41

Expectations
, 14, 27, 139, 154, 188, 234

External expression
, 63

Face
, 25–26

features and warmth
, 207–208

wrinkles
, 191

Facial appearance
, 27, 40, 131–132, 201, 206

and health
, 159–160

Facial femininity
, 189

Facing Beauty
, 50

Facing photos
, 70–76

Fading beauty
, 57

Female beauty
, 39

Feminine beauty
, 126

Feminism
, 40

Feminists
, 47

Fight Club
, 41

Foppery
, 42

Fortune
, 43, 122

Fountain of youth
, 57–58

Fragile life
, 180–182

Frailty
, 45, 158–159

Gender
, 39

and vanity
, 241–242

and visibility
, 141

Gentry
, 42

Glass mirrors
, 33

Glossy black hair
, 82–83

Glows, aging face
, 231

Google
, 248

Grace
, 55

Grandfathering
, 44

“Great Renunciation,”
, 42

Grimness, habitual faces
, 222–223

Grooming
, 123

hygiene
, 238

products
, 122

Group, visibility in
, 143

Growing old together, men appearance
, 113–114

Habitual faces

character
, 224–225

disappointments in life
, 223

emotion
, 219

etched into/on skin
, 220

grimness
, 222–223

hardship
, 221–222

life
, 223–224

life/experience
, 221

lived in faces
, 219–220

old faces vs. young faces
, 220–221

smiles lines
, 224

worry
, 222

Hair

black hair care
, 85–86

color
, 118

glossy black hair
, 82–83

history
, 118–119

loss
, 116, 236–237

men on appearance
, 115–119

and passion for life
, 236–237

straightening techniques
, 80

thinning
, 84

white hair
, 84

Hardship, habitual faces
, 221–222

Harmony
, 55

Health

and beauty
, 245–246

indicators
, 86–87

and mortality
, 155

Health monitoring

chronological and biological health
, 155, 164

compassion
, 157

cultural/societal reality
, 155

faces of friends, sign in
, 157–158

facial appearance and health
, 159–160

frailty
, 158–159

ill-health and unattractiveness
, 156

indications of health
, 156

medicalization of old age
, 155

pain
, 156–157

quality of life
, 156

sense of mortality
, 155

sheltered accommodation
, 156

strangers
, 157

youthful sense of immortality
, 156

Hesitancy
, 69

Hygiene
, 57

and grooming
, 152–153

Identity
, 129–131, 228

Ill-health and unattractiveness
, 156

Inattentional blindness (IB)
, 138

Instant cameras
, 38

Internal disharmony
, 77

Internalized ageism
, 136–137

Interviewees
, 3–4

Invisibility
, 21, 44, 138, 140, 142–145

Jejunity
, 200

Joy and enjoy
, 210

Kids, self-presentation
, 11–12

Legacy of change
, 248–249

Life, habitual faces
, 221, 223–224

Life expectancy
, 14–15

Lifelong relationships and beauty
, 215

Living with mortality

approach
, 164–167

body
, 173–174

death masks
, 183–184

death within the family

bonus round
, 179–180

child
, 177–178

parents
, 175–177

fragile life
, 180–182

mirrors
, 173

photographing the dead
, 172–173

photography and meaning
, 171–172

public death
, 182–183

time and fear

chronology and measuring time
, 167–168

Cold War
, 170–171

inevitability, chronology, health, and other stories
, 168–170

Longevity
, 44–45, 167, 232–233

and next generation
, 103–104

passion for life
, 234

revolution
, 13–14

Looking glass

history
, 32–33

mirror and morality
, 33–36

self-reflection
, 32

Look of old
, 136–138

Makeup

application
, 80, 82

beauty work
, 49

self-care and
, 148

Maleness
, 39–40, 43, 150

Male pattern baldness (MPB)
, 115–116

Male vanity
, 241

Manhood
, 39–41

Marigold Hotel (film)
, 30

Masculinity
, 39–40, 99, 109

characterizations
, 100

clothing and hair
, 42, 43

contemporary
, 43

parameters
, 150

redefining
, 40

Maturity
, 100

Media

men on appearance
, 123–126

and stereotyping

in animation and cartoons
, 28–29

celebrity culture
, 30–31

consumers
, 28

in film
, 29–30

‘mental pollution,’
, 26

older people
, 26–27

old people
, 27

in print media
, 27–28

women on appearance
, 89–92

Medicalization of old age
, 155

Men

change is inevitable
, 41

grooming products
, 122

history
, 41–43

multiple masculinities
, 39–40

status devaluation
, 44

on visibility
, 141–145

work and
, 44

Men on appearance

acceptance or ambivalence
, 105–107

compare and contrast
, 109–114

face in mirror
, 126–132

generational connections
, 114–115

hair
, 115–119

interventions
, 107–109

media
, 123–126

movement of time
, 101–105

photo reality
, 119–121

vanity, skin, and care
, 121–123

Mirrors

living with mortality
, 173

men on appearance
, 126–132

and morality
, 33–36

women on appearance
, 94–96

Moral affliction
, 36

Moral beauty
, 35

Morality, mirrors and
, 33–36

Mortality
, 57–58, 103–104, 155

Multiple masculinities
, 39–40

Naysayers
, 12–13

Neuroscience and beauty
, 53–54

‘New athleticism,’
, 40

New York Times
, 30

Obscure masculine heritage
, 40

Old age
, 105

medicalization of
, 155

men
, 43–45

older people, categories
, 27–28

people and evolution
, 15–16

women
, 145–150

Old faces vs. young faces, habitual faces
, 220–221

Old is the New Black
, 190

Old people
, 27

On Beauty
, 59, 212, 230

Ornamentation
, 42

Pain, health monitoring
, 156–157

Painted portraiture
, 37

Partner’s appearance
, 146–147

Passion for life

acceptance and ambivalence
, 235–236

age and vivid beauty
, 229–230

age appropriate
, 243–244

assumption and becoming
, 246–247

beauty and
, 247

change and successful aging
, 234–235

confidence
, 238–239

corporatism and the media police
, 242–243

on death and beauty
, 231–232

error of perception
, 230–231

gender and vanity
, 241–242

hair and
, 236–237

health and beauty
, 245–246

legacy of change
, 248–249

longevity
, 234

more to death
, 245

photos
, 239–240

relational beauty
, 244–245

time and place
, 232–233

vanity
, 240–241

visibility
, 237–238

wholeness of lifespan
, 228

Personal grooming
, 152–153

Personality traits
, 189

Personal qualities
, 189

Photographic images
, 38

Photographing the dead
, 172

Photography and meaning
, 171–172

Photos

acknowledgement of change
, 119–120

in aging appearance
, 119–120

aging faces
, 72

appearance
, 71

changes in long term
, 70

comparison
, 72

difference
, 72–73

emotional experience
, 71

likeness
, 74–76

natural look
, 78–79

passion for life
, 239–240

reflections
, 71

self-presentation
, 76

sense of continuity
, 72–73, 76

time as continuity
, 76

vanity
, 76–79

Physical appearance
, 53

Physical beauty
, 35

Physicality
, 13, 39, 233

Physical mastery
, 43

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1992)
, 57

Plastic/aesthetic surgery
, 43

Pleasing appearance
, 147–148

Polaroid instant cameras
, 38

Portraiture
, 37

Power of self-suggestion
, 35

Presence
, 208–210

Problem generation
, 232

Proportionality
, 55

Psychology of appearance
, 189

Public death
, 182–183

Puritanism
, 51

Quality of life
, 156

Race and ethnicity
, 107

Race and visibility
, 143–144

Racial differences
, 86

Radiance
, 205–206

‘Real men,’
, 40

Recognition of power
, 95

Red Hat Society
, 140

Reflection of aging

moments of reckoning
, 68–69

progression
, 69–70

recognition, eyes, comfort, and comparisons
, 67–68

See also Aging

Rejuvenation
, 46

Relational beauty

changing priorities
, 212–213

face you want to return to
, 217–219

meaning and connection
, 213–215

passion for life
, 244–245

shared history
, 215–217

Religious or spiritual beliefs
, 170

Retirement
, 44

Roman mirrors
, 32

Safety and self-protection
, 152

The Second Sex (2013)
, 47

Second-wave feminism
, 40

scholarship
, 46

Self-acceptance
, 43

See also Acceptance

Self-assessment
, 189–190

Self-assurance
, 93

Self-care
, 35, 97, 148–150, 152–155

Self-confidence
, 69

and aging
, 238–239

and identity
, 101

Self-consciousness
, 37

Self-correction and self-adjustment
, 230

Self-identified women
, 141

Selfies
, 37–38

Selfish generation
, 232

Self-knowing reflection
, 39

Self-mastery
, 35

Self-perception
, 38

Self-presentation
, 78, 81, 101, 154, 233

Self-reflection
, 32

Self-styled looks
, 233

Sense of ambivalence
, 105

Sense of continuity
, 74, 114, 235–236

Sense of equanimity
, 105

Sense of gratification
, 92

Sense of identity
, 233

Sense of invisibility
, 150

Sense of mortality
, 93, 155

Sense of presence
, 153–155

Serious face, aging appearance
, 117

Sexual attraction
, 147–148

Sexual excitation
, 56

Sexual interest
, 152

Shared history, relational beauty
, 215–217

Sheltered accommodation, health monitoring
, 156

Silver (gray) market
, 28, 30

Sixties

defining
, 9–10

social rupture
, 8–9, 13

Skin-bleaching
, 80

Skin care

creams
, 89

routine
, 89

Smiles lines
, 224

Social death
, 184

Standard of beauty
, 203

Stereotyping
, 28

Strangers, health monitoring
, 157

Style and kind eyes
, 200–202

Successful aging
, 30–31, 235

Suffragettes
, 51

Surgery and botox

aging appearance, acceptance
, 66

beautification
, 67

bioplasty or surgery
, 66

cosmetics use
, 67

Surgical and non-invasive interventions
, 107–108

Surprise and acceptance
, 106–107

Systemic communications theory
, 4

Systems theory and thinking
, 4–5

Systems thinking
, 4

Taste
, 5, 58–59, 242–243

Thinning hair
, 84

Time

appearance
, 104

and fear
, 167–168

Cold War
, 170–171

inevitability, chronology, health, and other stories
, 168–170

and history
, 16–18

and place
, 144–145, 232–233

Toxic masculinity
, 41

Upper class
, 100

Vanity

gender and
, 241–242

and men
, 121–123, 241

passion for life
, 240–241

photos
, 76–79

and women
, 45

Victorian death culture
, 167

Visibility

gender and
, 141

men on
, 141–145

passion for life
, 237–238

women on
, 138–141

Visual expression
, 191

Visual information
, 138

Vitality
, 205, 208

Vivid beauty
, 229–230

Vogue
, 31

Ways of Seeing (1972)
, 135

Well turned out women
, 148–150

What we know and what we see

health monitoring
, 155–160

look of old
, 136–138

men on visibility
, 141–145

older women
, 145–150

women on visibility
, 138–141

women seeing men
, 150–155

White hair
, 84

White masculinity
, 141

Wholeness of lifespan
, 228

Women

attempt to look younger
, 150

beauty work
, 49–50

body satisfaction
, 48–49

context and politics
, 47–48

cosmetics, caring, and morality
, 50–52

frailty
, 45

Hygiene and Grooming
, 151–152

perspectives
, 45–47

vanity and
, 45

on visibility
, 138–141

visibility of men
, 150–151

hygiene and grooming
, 152–153

sense of presence
, 153–155

unattractive and beautiful
, 151–152

Women on appearance

acceptance
, 65–66

age is not just a number
, 63–65

beauty in the eyes of the beholder
, 62–63

confidence
, 92–94

face in mirror
, 94–96

facing photos
, 70–76

hair

black hair care
, 85–86

glossy black hair
, 82–83

white hair
, 84

media influences
, 89–92

not so skin deep
, 86–89

reflection of aging

moments of reckoning
, 68–69

progression
, 69–70

recognition, eyes, comfort, and comparisons
, 67–68

self-presentation
, 62

surgery and botox
, 66–67

there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass (Shakespeare)
, 76–82

Women’s dissatisfaction
, 45, 48–49

Women seeing men
, 150–155

Women’s Wear Daily article
, 248

Workwear look
, 42

Worry, habitual faces
, 222

Wrinkled exotic face
, 194

Wrinkles
, 123

Youth and beauty
, 228

Youthful appearance
, 49

Youthful looking women
, 149

Youthful sense of immortality
, 156

Zest
, 205