Shades of grey: to dye or not to dye one's hair in later life
Shades of grey: to dye or not to dye one's hair in later life
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x1000036x
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Korotchenko, Alexandra
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作者：
Clarke, Laura Hurd;Korotchenko, Alexandra
这篇文章探讨了老年女性对灰白头发和有色头发的看法。通过对36名年龄在71-94岁（平均79岁）的女性的深度访谈，我们阐明了女性对染发或不染发的态度和原因。我们的大多数参与者都轻视白发的外观，他们将其等同于丑陋、依赖、健康状况不佳、脱离社会和文化隐形。这些女性尤其不喜欢自己的白头发，许多人认为其他女性的白头发即使不吸引人，也是可以接受的。与此同时，一半的女性喜欢雪白的头发，她们认为这与晚年的吸引力以及善良和纯洁有关。三分之一的女性在年轻时开始染发，以显得更时尚，三分之二的女性在晚年继续染发，以掩盖自己的白发和实际年龄。这些女性表示，她们使用染发剂是为了显得更年轻，并抵制与老年女性有关的年龄歧视刻板印象。我们讨论了与先前有关老年妇女头发的研究结果，做性别的概念以及与年龄歧视有关的理论。
This article examines older women's perceptions of grey, white and coloured hair. Using data from in-depth interviews with 36 women aged 71-94 years (mean 79), we elucidate the women's attitudes towards and reasons for dyeing or not dyeing their hair. The majority of our participants disparaged the appearance of grey hair, which they equated with ugliness, dependence, poor health, social disengagement and cultural invisibility. The women were particularly averse to their own grey hair, and many suggested that other women's grey hair was acceptable, if not attractive. At the same time, half of the women liked the look of snowy white hair, which they associated with attractiveness in later life as well as with goodness and purity. While one-third of the women had begun to dye their hair in their youth so as to appear more fashionable, two-thirds continued to dye their hair in later life so as to mask their grey hair and their chronological age. The women suggested that they used hair dye to appear more youthful and to resist ageist stereotypes associated with older women. We discuss the findings in relation to previous research concerning older women's hair, the concept of doing gender, and theories pertaining to ageism.