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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Tam, Huynh Thi Xuan, Boonmongkon, Pimpawun, Wang, Xiaochuan, Guadamuz, Thomas E.
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Animo Repository 2017
• الموضوعات: femininity; hormone replacement therapy; menopause; skin beauty; Vietnam
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol17/iss2/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1105/viewcontent/2_Xuan_revised_20112317.pdf

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...