The ways women age: using and refusing cosmetic intervention

Introduction : older women in cosmetic culture

"I wanted to look like me again" : aging, identity, and cosmetic intervention

"I am what I am!" : the freedom of growing older "naturally"

"Age changes you, but not like surgery" : refusing cosmetic intervention

"Can we just stop the clock here?" : promise and peril in the anti-aging explosion

"Why should I be the ugly one?" : social circles of intervention

"It's not in my world" : living as a natural ager

Conclusion : taking the body back

Epilogue.