Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism

1. Introduction: Popular Culture’s ‘Silver Tsunami’
Imelda Whelehan, Joel Gwynne

2. Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing
Liz Byrski

3. Fiction or Polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women’s Fiction
Imelda Whelehan

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

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

6. Paternalising the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty- First Century Film
Hannah Hamad

7. Too Old for This Shit?: On Ageing Tough Guys
Dominic Lennard

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

9. Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop
Lynne Hibberd

10. Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the ‘Appropriately’ Ageing Actress
Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

11. Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy
Rosie White

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

13. The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute
Georgina Ellen O’Brien Hill

14. Women, Travelling and Later Life
Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako

15. Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film
Dee Michell, Casey Tonkin, Penelope Eate

16. Beyond Wicked Witches and Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children’s Fantasy on Screen
Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Deb Waterhouse-Watson

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Feminism, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Cultural Studies, Media Studies