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: Huynh Thi Xuan Tam, Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Xiaochuan Wang, Thomas E. Guadamuz
• Other Authors: Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Economics, Econometrics and Finance
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/41707
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2017 by 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 sagg...