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Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism

Harleys and Hormones

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Editors:
  1. Imelda Whelehan

    1. University of Tasmania, Australia

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  2. Joel Gwynne

    1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Popular Culture’s ‘Silver Tsunami’

    • Imelda Whelehan, Joel Gwynne
    Pages 1-13

  3. Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing

    • Liz Byrski
    Pages 14-28

  4. Fiction or Polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women’s Fiction

    • Imelda Whelehan
    Pages 29-46

  5. ‘Mrs Robinson Seeks Benjamin’: Cougars, Popular Memoirs and the Quest for Fulfilment in Midlife and Beyond

    • Joel Gwynne
    Pages 47-62

  6. Sexing Up the Midlife Woman: Cultural Representations of Ageing, Femininity and the Sexy Body

    • Sharron Hinchliff
    Pages 63-77

  7. Paternalising the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty- First Century Film

    • Hannah Hamad
    Pages 78-92

  8. Too Old for This Shit?: On Ageing Tough Guys

    • Dominic Lennard
    Pages 93-107

  9. ‘The (un-Botoxed) Face of a Hollywood Revolution’: Meryl Streep and the ‘Greying’ of Mainstream Cinema

    • Deborah Jertnyn
    Pages 108-123

  10. Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop

    • Lynne Hibberd
    Pages 124-139

  11. Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the ‘Appropriately’ Ageing Actress

    • Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs
    Pages 140-155

  12. Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy

    • Rosie White
    Pages 155-171

  13. Silence Isn’t Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of ‘America’s Grandma’, Betty White

    • Elizabeth Rawitsch
    Pages 172-186

  14. The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute

    • Georgina Ellen O’Brien Hill
    Pages 187-202

  15. Women, Travelling and Later Life

    • Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako
    Pages 203-218

  16. Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film

    • Dee Michell, Casey Tonkin, Penelope Eate
    Pages 219-232

  17. Beyond Wicked Witches and Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children’s Fantasy on Screen

    • Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Deb Waterhouse-Watson
    Pages 233-247

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 249-254
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About this book

How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tasmania, Australia

    Imelda Whelehan

  • National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Joel Gwynne

About the editors

Imelda Whelehan is Professor of English and Gender Studies and Pro Vice Chancellor (Research Training) at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research focuses on feminist thought, popular fiction and film, and adaptation studies. Recent books include Screen Adaptation (with D. Cartmell, 2010), The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (ed. with D. Cartmell, 2007) and The Feminist Bestseller (2005). She is also Co-Editor of the journal Adaptation and Associate Editor of Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP). She is currently writing on bras and post-war Hollywood. 


Joel Gwynne is Assistant Professor of English at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author/co-editor of several books on contemporary literature and visual culture, including Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (2012), Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure (2013) and Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (2013). His essays have appeared in journals such as Journal of Gender Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, Journal of Contemporary Asia and Feminist Theory. 


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