Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and Hormones

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Popular Culture’s ‘Silver Tsunami’....Pages 1-13
Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing....Pages 14-28
Fiction or Polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women’s Fiction....Pages 29-46
‘Mrs Robinson Seeks Benjamin’: Cougars, Popular Memoirs and the Quest for Fulfilment in Midlife and Beyond....Pages 47-62
Sexing Up the Midlife Woman: Cultural Representations of Ageing, Femininity and the Sexy Body....Pages 63-77
Paternalising the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty- First Century Film....Pages 78-92
Too Old for This Shit?: On Ageing Tough Guys....Pages 93-107
‘The (un-Botoxed) Face of a Hollywood Revolution’: Meryl Streep and the ‘Greying’ of Mainstream Cinema....Pages 108-123
Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop....Pages 124-139
Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the ‘Appropriately’ Ageing Actress....Pages 140-155
Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy....Pages 155-171
Silence Isn’t Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of ‘America’s Grandma’, Betty White....Pages 172-186
The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute....Pages 187-202
Women, Travelling and Later Life....Pages 203-218
Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film....Pages 219-232
Beyond Wicked Witches and Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children’s Fantasy on Screen....Pages 233-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-254