Ageing Appropriately: Postfeminist Discourses of Ageing in Contemporary Hollywood
Year: 2013
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In this chapter, I will explore how Hollywood represents older women, faced as they are with the presence of some formidable ageing stars and with the growing awareness that mature women make up a significant part of the audience demographic. Mindful of E. Ann Kaplan’s assertion that ‘it is in the interest of patriarchal culture to keep alive the myth that, after menopause, women have no particular function and therefore can be passed over for young women who still depend on men’, 1 I will consider the combined impact of ageism and sexism in film in the context of popular postfeminist discourses of ageing. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Imelda Whelehan
Language: English
Topic: Gender, Feminism, and Media
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1558914083