Skin Beauty as Erotic Capital and Production of “Luckiness”: A Look at Menopausal Women Using Hormone Therapy Replacement for Skin Treatment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Main Authors: Tam, Huynh Thi Xuan, Boonmongkon, Pimpawun, Wang, Xiaochuan, Guadamuz, Thomas E.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: femininity; hormone replacement therapy; menopause; skin beauty; Vietnam
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol17/iss2/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1105/viewcontent/2_Xuan_revised_20112317.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

According to social and cultural constructs of aging and femininity, menopausal women‘s bodily transitions cause them to initiate hormone therapy replacement (HRT) to restore their youth and beauty. For example, they might take HRT to improve their wrinkled and sagging skin. A problem emerges, howev...