Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture
An accessibly written ethnography, the women in Furman's beauty shop reveal a great deal about women's lives and positions in contemporary culture. --Feminist BookstoreNewsI quickly absorbed Furman's words-the results of nearly five years of research...it is a book long overdue. --Heritage SundayFacing the Mirrorcombines studies of aging, Judaism, and beauty into an excellent ethnographic study of a beauty salon in Chicago. --Gender & SocietyThe book calls much needed attention to an area of women's experience that has been seen as socially insignificant. --C. AdamskyChoiceA respectful and even tender treatment of a large and largely neglected population in our culture: elderly, middle income, middle American women...[Furman's] account is beautifully written, warm. -- Sally B. PurvisWhat Furman gives us inFacing the Mirroris hard to come by: a mostly jargon-free chronicle of an oft-ignored population. --In These TimesFacing the Mirroris a thoughtful feminist analysis. --Booklist