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Ames, Melissa; Burcon, Sarah - How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life - 9781349849918 - V9781349849918
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How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life

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Description for How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life Paperback. BIC Classification: YQS. Dimension: 216 x 140. .

Contemporary popular culture has created a slew of stereotypical roles for girls and women to (willingly or not) play throughout their lives: The Princess, the Nymphette, the Diva, the Single Girl, the Bridezilla, the Tiger Mother, the M.I.L.F, the Cougar, and more. In this book Ames and Burcon investigate the role of cultural texts in gender socialization at specific pre-scripted stages of a woman's life (from girls to the "golden girls") and how that instruction compounds over time. By studying various texts (toys, magazines, blogs, tweets, television shows, Hollywood films, novels, and self-help books) they argue that popular culture ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349849918
SKU
V9781349849918
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About Ames, Melissa; Burcon, Sarah
Melissa Ames is an Associate Professor at Eastern Illinois University specializing in media studies, television scholarship, popular culture, feminist theory, and pedagogy. Her most recent and forthcoming publications include her books, Women and Language (2011) and Time in Television Narrative (2012); chapters in Grace Under Pressure: Grey's Anatomy Uncovered (2008), Writing the Digital Generation (2010), Bitten by Twilight (2010), and ... Read more

Reviews for How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life
“How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman’s Life focuses on how popular culture has created stereotypical roles for women that have potentially limited their progress. … The book is clearly intended for a scholarly audience but is accessible for the lay reader as well.” (Maire Simington, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 41 (2), June, 2018) “In this ... Read more

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