How pop culture shapes the stages of a woman's life : from toddlers-in-tiaras to cougars-on-the prowl / Melissa Ames (Eastern Illinois University, United States) and Sarah Burcon (University of Michigan, United States).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Melissa, 1978- author.

Burcon, Sarah Himsel, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in mass media.

Mass media--Influence.

Mass media.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: Runhouse mirrors- popular culture's distorted view of girl/womanhood

1. Becoming a girl: pop culture's first stage of gender training

2. Reading between the lines: the lessons adolescent girls learn through popular young adult literature

3. The gendered self-help reel: how romantic comedies instruct women on dating dos and don'ts

4. Selling weddings and producing brides: mediated portrayals of that 'perfect day'

5. Love, American style: gendered representations of marriage in the media

6. Nine months of fear and a lifetime of paranoia: the hidden effects of pregnancy manuals, child rearing products, and more

7. Changing the playing (or reading) field: reconceptualizing motherhood through humorous parenting texts

8. Pumas, and cougars, and MILFs, oh my!: popular portrayals of romance and sexual encounters between 'the older woman' and younger man

9. Beyond the hot flashes: new portrayals of mature women

Conclusion: Exiting the funhouse- challenging society's lessons one stage at a time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.

ISBN:

9781137566171

1137566175

OCLC:

927241542