Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism

Notes on Contributors Introduction: The 'Greying' of Popular Culture?; Imelda Whelehan and Joel Gwynne 1. Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing; Liz Byrski 2. Fiction or polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women's Fiction; Imelda Whelehan 3. 'Mrs Robinson seeks Benjamin': Cougars, Popular Memoirs and the Quest for Fulfillment in Midlife and Beyond; Joel Gwynne 4. Sexing-up the Midlife Woman: Cultural Representations of Ageing, Femininity, and the Sexy Body; Sharron Hinchliff 5. Paternalizing the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Film; Hannah Hamad 6. Too Old For This Shit?: On Aging Tough Guys; Dominic Lennard 7. 'The (un-Botoxed) Face of a Hollywood Revolution': Meryl Streep and the 'Greying' of Mainstream Cinema; Deborah Jermyn 8. Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop; Lynne Hibberd 9. Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the 'Appropriately' Ageing Actress; Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs 10. Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy; Rosie White 11. Silence Isn't Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of 'America's Grandma' Betty White; Elizabeth Rawitsch 12. The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute ; Georgina Ellen O'Brien Hill 13. Women, Travelling and Later Life; Sarah Falcus and Katsura Sako 14. Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film; Dee Michell, Casey Tonkin and Penelope Eate 15. Beyond Wicked Witches And Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children's Fantasy on Screen; Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario and Deb Waterhouse-Watson Index