The Cult of Youth

Stark, James F.

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“…149 Their widespread use thus confirms Stark's argument that rejuvenatory ideas and practices were assimilated into and embedded within everyday life. 150 Yet it may also be that few users really believed the tonics would actually protect their hair. Karl Bell has argued that Victorian and Edwardian stories of magic could be told and employed with them being wholly believed and it may be that something similar was also true of the tales of causes and cures of baldness.…”

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Masculinity, Modernity and Male Baldness, c.1880‐1939

Johnes

2021

Gender & History

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Male baldness was a very common experience but it has rarely been considered by historians of any period or place. This article argues that baldness reveals a precariousness and vanity to masculinity in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Britain. Baldness limited men's ability to self-fashion their appearance. It made them the target of jokes, marked the fact they were getting older, undermined their looks and, perhaps, made them less attractive to women. There was thus a vigorous market for cures and preventatives. Such products show how deep superstitions and irrational thinking could run, but understandings of the condition were also rooted in the social and cultural conditions of the day. The glamour of Hollywood, a keep-fit culture, growing advertising of male-grooming products and the fading of hat wearing from fashion, all intensified interwar anxieties around baldness. Not everyone worried about baldness, however, and men's feelings about their hair owed much to personality and circumstance. Baldness thus not only reveals the precarious nature of masculinity but also its inconsistent and inherently personal dimensions.

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Section: Curing Baldnessmentioning

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Masculinity, Modernity and Male Baldness, c.1880‐1939

Johnes

2021

Gender & History

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Altern zwischen Anti-Aging–Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

Kolland

Heidinger

2021

Das Ganze Leben Leben

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Bearing the Burdens we (don’t Tend to) Bare

Moyse

2021

Population Ageing

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The burdens of older life, during what Peter Laslett calls the fourth-age, exaggerate feelings of fear and desire while resourcing despair. Some such burdens are borne from human corporeality. Others are socially constructed and afflict older persons further. A typology of burdens is introduced, identifying reflexive, transitive, and accusative burdens. The reflexive dirge of the person grieving their losses of competence, self-sufficiency, and independence includes a transitive counterpart, where a person’s self-perceived burden includes also the sense that one has become a burden to others. The accusative burden is experienced when persons are marked by others, catastrophically, as a burden. Regardless, these burdens must be given attention while attending to the ideations that prioritise independence but risk despair. Thus the relation between burdened self-image, despair, and late modern and policy preoccupations with independence will further focus such attention. Specifically, the prominence of independence in narratives of successful ageing will be interrogated, while inviting theological reflection on the reality of dependence and the nature of bodily life, together. That the Christian theological tradition teaches that human beings are bodies and are mutually dependent presses back against dogmas that prioritise independence and other icons of discrete subjectivity. Pointing toward Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s understanding of vicarious representative action, the reader is invited to consider again the kind of language in policy and for practice that might humanise persons in exchanges of responsible care(giving) and mutual dependence throughout the life course.

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The Cult of Youth

Cited by 5 publications

References 191 publications

Masculinity, Modernity and Male Baldness, c.1880‐1939

Masculinity, Modernity and Male Baldness, c.1880‐1939

Altern zwischen Anti-Aging–Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

Bearing the Burdens we (don’t Tend to) Bare

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