Understanding aging bodies plays a crucial part in the identity formation of older people in the representations of the body drawing from Baudrillard is key. Outside of the discipline of social gerontology, feminism has focused on the ways younger women’s bodies were controlled and dominated within patriarchy. Feminism has focused our attention as to how women represent the body itself. The current interest in the body and embodiment in social and human sciences encompasses a range of themes and theoretical traditions. Historically, the discipline of sociology ignored the centrality of the body in terms of its prioritized “rational” or scientific analysis of modern social systems. Indeed, the sociological tradition has focused upon the social forces that impinge upon the construction of personal biographies and the society in which sociologists live.