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Face: One Square Foot of Skin

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Face: One Square Foot of Skin

Contributors:

By (Author) Justine Bateman

ISBN:

9781636140209

Publisher:

Akashic Books,U.S.

Imprint:

Akashic Books,U.S.

Publication Date:

1st June 2021

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Description

Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older womens faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be 'fixed.'

Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for societys often negative attitudes toward womens older faces. In doing so, Bateman rejects those ingrained assumptions about the necessity of fixing older womens faces, suggesting that we move on from judging someones worth based on the condition of her face.

With impassioned prose and a laser-sharp eye, Bateman argues that a woman's confidence should grow as she ages, not be destroyed by society's misled attitude about that one square foot of skin.

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