Face: One Square Foot of Skin

Justine Bateman

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"Face . . . is filled with fictional vignettes that examine real-life societal attitudes and internal fears that have caused a negative perspective on women's faces as they age." --TODAY, a Best Book of 2021

"There is nothing wrong with your face. At least, that's what Justine Bateman wants you to realize. Her new book, Face: One Square Foot of Skin, is a collection of fictional short stories told from the perspectives of women of all ages and professions; with it, she aims to correct the popular idea that you need to stop what you're doing and start staving off any signs of aging in the face." --W Magazine

"Combining the author's intensely personal stories with relevant examples from the culture at large, the book is heartbreaking and hopeful, infuriating and triumphant." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed."

Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes toward women's older faces. In doing so, Bateman rejects those ingrained assumptions about the necessity of fixing older women's faces, suggesting that we move on from judging someone's worth based on the condition of her face.

With impassioned prose and a laser-sharp eye, Bateman argues that a woman's confidence should grow as she ages, not be destroyed by society's misled attitude about that one square foot of skin.

Book Details

Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Publish Date: Sep 13rd, 2022
Pages: 272
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.90in - 4.90in - 0.90in - 0.65lb
EAN: 9781636140339
Categories: • Feminism & Feminist Theory• Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Popular Culture

About the Author

Bateman, Justine: - JUSTINE BATEMAN is an author and filmmaker with an impressive, decades-long résumé in film and TV that includes a Golden Globe nomination and two Emmy nominations. Her feature films are the avant-garde pieces Look and Feel, and the critically acclaimed Violet starring Olivia Munn and Justin Theroux (an official selection of SXSW and the Toronto Film Festival). Bateman's shorts include the 2017 award-winning Five Minutes, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was chosen by the Tribeca Film Festival and others. Her books, Fame: The Hijacking of Reality and the subsequent Face: One Square Foot of Skin, are both bestsellers. Bateman is the founder of CREDO23 and the non-AI CREDO23 Film Festival. She holds a degree in computer science and digital media management from UCLA.

Praise for this book

"[Bateman] studies the topic of women and aging in her new book Face: One Square Foot of Skin." --People

"The actor and author of Face: One Square Foot of Skin wants to push back against the ubiquity of plastic surgery." --Vanity Fair

"Through a selection of short stories, [Bateman] examines just how complicated it is for women to get older, both in and out of the spotlight."
--Glamour

"[Bateman is] putting an inspiring spin on aging by celebrating her face just as it is. Leaving us with an inspired State of Mind!" --Maria Schriver's Sunday Paper

"Bateman asks, what if we just rejected the idea that older faces need fixing. What if we ignored all the clanging bells that remind women every day on every platform that we are in some kind of endless battle with aging." --TIME

"[Bateman] argues that American society has long equated the signs of aging on a woman's face with unattractiveness. But she also asserts that women need not participate in such prejudice by accepting and internalizing it."
--AARP

"Face: One Square Foot of Skin [is] a creative nonfiction tome about the ways society responds to women as they age . . . [Bateman] said she was compelled to take a deeper look at the unfair expectations placed on women, particularly women in the public eye like her, as they grow older."
--Hollywood Reporter

"Right on, Justine Bateman. Thanks for helping us embrace our faces just as they are." --Upworthy

"Brave, brilliant, and unflinchingly honest, Justine is that writer you trust because she goes after every subject with a warrior's focus, and throws herself to the lions while she's at it. It doesn't hurt that she's a gorgeous woman who hasn't tried to erase an ounce of history from her face. I love the way she thinks, and am amazed at the many sublayers she manages to excavate while everyone else is scratching the surface."
--Mary-Louise Parker, author of Dear Mr. You

"[Bateman] recounts her own experiences and interviews more than 20 other individuals to present a series of fictional vignettes that argue that women's aging faces should be viewed as beautiful--the proof of complex lives well lived." --Alta Journal

"A much-needed viewpoint on an important and seemingly universal issue." --Manhattan Book Review