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How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life - From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life - From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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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 exists
as a type of funhouse mirror constantly distorting the real world
conditions that exist for women, magnifying the gendered
expectations they face. Despite the many problematic, conflicting
messages women receive throughout their lives, this book also
showcases the ways such messages are resisted, allowing women to
move past the blurry reality they broadcast and toward, hopefully,
gender equality.
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