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| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Older Women, Younger Men Felicia Brings, Susan Winter, 2000 Despite famous couples, most older women have never been open to finding that special someone form the pool of younger men. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Fine, I'll Go Online! Leslie Oren, 2007-11-13 An entertaining, step-by-step guide to successful online dating.--The Hollywood Reporter It only takes one, but finding one you click with can be tough. These days, more and more women are deciding to go online to find love. In this fun yet informative guide, top Hollywood publicist Leslie Oren will give you the tricks of her trade – marketing and creating an image – to help you navigate today's tangled dating Web to find a match who's waiting for you. Just like she has done for her clients in Hollywood, Leslie will teach you how to successfully craft your image to create the best possible version of your authentic self for Internet dating, including: *How to write the perfect online profile *Why you must post a photo *What not to write in an email *Why the first date should only be meeting for coffee or a drink *Why a second date means online dating success And many more tips to make you shine like a star! |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema Joel Gwynne, Niall Richardson, 2020-07-21 Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity, and have usually explored cross generational romance in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women and younger men and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also to navigate the differences between socially acceptable love and transgressive desire. This collection focuses on the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships and addresses the often divisive relationship between the discourses of youth and ageing in popular culture. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Female Celebrity and Ageing Deborah Jermyn, 2016-04-29 Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. In the era when the ‘baby boomers’ have started drawing their pensions, the boundaries of what constitutes ‘old age’ have never seemed more fluid, and ageing has never been presented by advertisers and marketers in a more dynamic fashion. However, the fact remains that ageing is still widely feared, and growing old is an inherently gendered process, in which ageing women are paradoxically both rendered invisible and subjected to damning scrutiny. Nowhere is this conflicting state of affairs more evident than in celebrity culture, where ageing female stars are praised for ‘growing old gracefully’ one moment, and condemned for ‘letting themselves go’ the next, when they fail to age ‘appropriately’. Examining a variety of themes and ageing women in the spotlight, from Barbara Stanwyck to Madonna to Charlotte Rampling, the essays collected here forge new critical and conceptual insights into how women grow older in the media, and the implications of this for what Susan Sontag memorably called the double standard of ageing. This book is based on a special issue of Celebrity Studies. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The Dark Side of Close Relationships II William R. Cupach, Brian H. Spitzberg, 2010-09-13 Focuses on the paradoxical, dialectical, and mystifying facets of human interaction, not merely to elucidate dysfunctional relationship phenomena, but to help readers explore and understand it in relation to a broader understanding about relationships. This volume is of interest to relationship researchers in social psychology and sociology. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports Deborah V. Tudor, 1997 First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Romantic Relationships Paul R. Robbins, 2015-11-16 What is romantic love? Are romantic relationships valuable? Are most people romantic? How do people meet the right person? How important is physical attraction? In a question and answer format, this is a wide-ranging look at romantic relationships in the 1990s. Drawn from the body of research published in recent years about relationships, over 90 of the most-asked questions in the author’s practice are answered here. Issues covered include sexual harassment, understanding your partner, sex in the age of AIDS, the effects of divorce, handling anger, and many other matters. Written in everyday language, the answers are easily understood by all. This work provides answers to many of the most vexing problems affecting romance in the 1990s. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The Child Manuela Christa Winsloe, 1994 On the death of her mother, Manuela von Meinhardis is sent to a repressive school where affection and all weaker emotions are outlawed. In this regime only Fraulein von Bernburg offers tenderness and love, and for that both she and Manuela must suffer. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism Betty Kaklamanidou, 2013 This new work draws together a discussion of the full range of romantic comedies in the new millennium, exploring the cycles of films that tackle areas including teen romance, the new career woman, women as action heroes, the homme com, motherhood and pregnancy and the mature millennium woman. The work evaluates the structure of these different types of films and examines in detail the ways in which they choose to frame key contemporary issues which influence how we analyse global politics, including gender, class, race and society. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Fabulous Over Forty Josie Slaton Terry, 2009-08 Does aging have to define and limit us from our best life? Author Josie Slaton Terry answers with a definitive no! Fabulous Over Forty shows us that getting older is the expression of our best self. With our participation we can be more powerful with the years. She urges us not to sit back and resign ourselves to a gradual decline; the aging well woman controls and produces the occasions that represent her. She realizes that there is so much left she can do with her life, and only activity will fulfill her. Time is still on her side. Fabulous Over Forty will wake you to the beauty of aging well and will inspire you to share the secret of aging beautifully with all the women in your life. Josie Slaton Terry is an aging-well business owner, graphic designer, writer and speaker. She is the organizer and founder of the Integrity Networking (Business Support) Group. Born in Woodbury, Georgia, Josie has lived and done business for most of her life in Atlanta, Georgia, Her motivation and self-help for other goes around the world. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sara B. Oswalt, 2016-02-16 Fully revised and updated with the latest data in the field, the Sixth Edition of Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality represents all aspects of human sexuality and explores how it affects personality, development, and decision making. Using a student-friendly interpersonal approach, the text discusses contemporary concepts as well as controversial topics in a sensitive manner, and covers the physiological, biological, psychological, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of human sexuality. Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality is an essential text for teaching sexuality and presents an integrated view of human sexuality that encourages students to pursue positive decisions, sexual health, and a lifetime of wellness. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage Jan Sewell, Clare Smout, 2020-04-29 This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of ‘history’, ‘stage’ and even the definition of ‘women’ itself. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The Advocate , 2001-09-11 The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Jet , 1978-09-28 The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman Jennifer Berman, Laura Berman, Alice Burdick Schweiger, 2005-04-13 The nation's leading experts on women's sexual health offer up the secrets to female sexual satisfaction using data culled from their groundbreaking new survey Not since The Hite Report twenty-five years ago has female sexuality been so comprehensively addressed and analyzed. In Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman, Drs. Laura and Jennifer Berman topple common misconceptions and reshape conventional wisdom based on their revolutionary and highly anticipated National Women's Sexual Satisfaction Survey. Extrapolating from the study results, the Bermans address the psychological and medical factors that affect sexuality while providing expert, accessible advice on how women can improve their sex lives and enhance sexual pleasure. The Bermans are not afraid to take on topics that make most people blush, and this book is sure to be an essential resource for women throughout the country. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Ebony , 1998-10 EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Ripping England! Roger Rawlings, 2017-12-04 Ripping England! investigates a fertile moment for British satire—the period between 1947 and 1953, which produced the films Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Lavender Hill Mob, as well as the seminal radio program The Goon Show. Against the postwar background of fading empire, universal rationing, and the implementation of a welfare state, these satires laid the foundation for a new British cultural identity later fleshed out by the Angry Young Men, the Movement poets, the Social Realists, and those involved in the satire boom of the 1960s, which lives on even to this day. The peculiarity of these satires and the British identity they shaped is better understood when seen in relief against postwar cinematic cultures of Italy, France, and the United States. Roger Rawlings places postwar British film in the context of contemporaneous European national film movements and contrasts it with Hollywood's comedies and satires of the same period. British satires of the late forties and early fifties held up a mirror to a nation that was in the throes of change, moving from a colonial empire to an inward-turning island culture. Ripping England! looks at the all too often neglected miracle of postwar British cinema and popular culture. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The French Screen Goddess Jonathan Driskell, 2015-03-26 Many years before Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve rose to fame, the French cinema produced a host of glamorous female stars designed to rival their Hollywood counterparts. Bathed in soft light, discussed adoringly in fan magazines and shown wearing the latest fashions, these 'cinematic stars' emerged in opposition to France's traditional stage-based stardom, while remaining, through the roles they played and the looks they sported, a distinctly French phenomenon. The French Screen Goddess examines how these stars influenced the narratives and look of their films, contributed to defining the period's new, emancipated femininity -, the 'modern woman' -, and related to the decade's politics, particularly the Popular Front of the mid-1930s. The book focuses on the three most important examples of this type of stardom, Annabella, Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan, while also considering many other key stars, such as Arletty, Viviane Romance and Jean Gabin. Previously neglected films are considered and true classics of French cinema re-examined, with Rene Clair's Quatorze juillet, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera, and Marcel Carne's Le Quai des brumes and Hotel du Nord foremost among these. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Aging Heroes Norma Jones, Bob Batchelor, 2015-05-06 With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that span the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes as our population gets older, this book offers a broad range of readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Feminist Film Studies Karen Hollinger, 2012-08-21 Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women’s representation and involvement in film, complemented by analyses of key texts that illustrate major topics in the field. Key areas include: a brief history of the development of feminist film theory the theorization of the male gaze and the female spectator women in genre films and literary adaptations the female biopic feminism and avant-garde and documentary film women as auteurs lesbian representation women in Third Cinema. Each chapter includes a Films in Focus section, which analyzes key texts related to the chapter’s major topic, including examples from classical Hollywood, world cinema, and the contemporary period. This book provides students in both film and gender/women’s studies with a clear introduction to the field of feminist film theory and criticism. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Ideal Beauty Lois W. Banner, 2023-09-15 One of the silver screen’s greatest beauties, Greta Garbo was also one of its most profound enigmas. A star in both silent pictures and talkies, Garbo kept viewers riveted with understated performances that suggested deep melancholy and strong desires roiling just under the surface. And offscreen, the intensely private Garbo was perhaps even more mysterious and alluring, as her retirement from Hollywood at age thirty-six only fueled the public’s fascination. Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the mystique, a woman who overcame an impoverished childhood to become a student at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy, an actress in European films, and ultimately a Hollywood star. Chronicling her tough negotiations with Louis B. Mayer at MGM, it shows how Garbo carved out enough power in Hollywood to craft a distinctly new feminist screen presence in films like Queen Christina. Banner draws on over ten years of in-depth archival research in Sweden, Germany, France, and the United States to demonstrate how, away from the camera’s glare, Garbo’s life was even more intriguing. Ideal Beauty takes a fresh look at an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century and provides answers to much-debated questions about Garbo’s childhood, sexuality, career, illnesses and breakdowns, and spiritual awakening. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: 7 Steps to Finding, and Keeping, 'the One'! Elaine Sihera, 2019-01-06 RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF OUR LIVES!You may not have found a date yet to start the year. Or your current relationship might be a little bit stale, predictable or rocky. So how can you make 2019 a great year for you?By securing your copy of 7 Steps to Finding, and Keeping, 'The One'! Elaine Sihera is in cracking form in an irreverent, often humorous, and very interesting book! Written from a female perspective, mainly for females over 30, but with lots in it for single males and younger people, too, this little book will answer key relationship questions, and much more. For example, it explains* the mysteries of attraction and how our usual pattern of reaction affects it* how men get hurt repeatedly by going on looks alone* the secret of the chemistry between two people* the true power of self-knowledge and being yourself in finding the right partner* the tell-tale signs of falling in love* the difference between love, passion and lust* fun things to do on a date* dealing with unexpected issues after the date* four key questions to ask yourself, if you're starting a new relationship* how to talk to someone you like for the first time* 6 ways to overcome shyness* how to tell if a guy is only interested in you for sex and what to do about it!* ....and much, much more.7 Steps to Finding, and Keeping, 'The One'! could be the answer for your next step, to show you another way of changing your situation and finding the right date/partner you seek. If what you have been doing has not landed you the right person as yet, perhaps your answer lies within these pages! You have nothing to lose but your fears, and could gain a whole lot more! There are also self assessment quizzes to help you discover your own readiness to find that special person. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975 Amnon Kabatchnik, 2011-04-14 Discussing more than 120 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1950 and 1975. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Ebony , 1998-10 EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Human Sexuality Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, 2014-01-14 First Published in 1994. The purpose of an encyclopedia is to gather in one place information that otherwise would be difficult to find. Bring together a collection of articles that are authoritative and reflect a variety of viewpoints. The contributors come from a wide range of disciplines— from nursing to medicine, from biology to history— and include sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists, literary specialists, academics and non-academics, clinicians and teachers, researchers and generalists. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Friends Forever Gary Susman, Jeannine Dillon, Bryan Cairns, 2019-11-26 An authorized episode guide of the hit-television show Friends, with an insider look at cult-favorite episodes, exclusive photos, and interviews. The beloved show Friends introduced the world to six young New Yorkers living together, falling in love, breaking up, and getting into hilarious shenanigans, which became an instant classic formula that inspired dozens of “hangout sitcoms” long after the show’s reign. But no sitcom has ever come close to the series that started it all, spawning iconic looks like “the Rachel” and timeless catchphrases like “How you doin’?” while creating a cultural sensation that catapulted the cast members to instant mega-stardom. Throughout the show’s ten- season run, viewers watched Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Ross, Chandler, and Joey navigate their twenties and thirties with unwavering friendship, determination, and, of course, plenty of sarcasm. Friends Forever takes fans back to the set where it all began with exclusive photos of the sitcom that won four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, eleven People’s Choice Awards, and a Golden Globe for Jennifer Aniston for Best Lead Actress in a Television Series. This fully illustrated episode guide will treat readers to nostalgic flashbacks of the top one hundred episodes and sneak peeks of how popularly referenced lines from the show came to be. Friends Forever also boasts new interviews with show creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman on how the show got its start and set designer John Shaffner who reveals his inspirations behind the iconic looks behind Monica’s and Rachel’s apartment and Central Perk. It’s no wonder why Friends is often called one of the best sitcoms of all time. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The Films of Hal Ashby Christopher Beach, 2009 Analyzes the films and filmmaking career of director Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s. Hal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Though he was a member of the same generation of filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, Ashby has received comparatively little critical or scholarly validation for his work. Author Christopher Beach argues that despite his lower profile, Ashby was an exceptionally versatile and unusually creative director. Beach focuses primarily on Ashby's first seven films--The Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being There--to analyze Ashby's contributions to filmmaking culture in the 1970s. The first two chapters of this volume provide an overview of Ashby's filmmaking career, as Beach makes the case for Ashby's status as an auteur and provides a biographical survey of Ashby's most productive and successful decade, the 1970s. In the following chapters, Beach analyzes groups of films to uncover important thematic concerns in Ashby's work, including the treatment of a young male protagonist in The Landlord and Harold and Maude, the representation of the U.S. military in The Last Detail and Coming Home, and the role of television and mass media in Shampoo and Being There. Beach also examines the crucial role of the musical score in Ashby's films, as well as the rapid decline of the director's career after Being There. The Films of Hal Ashby is based on Beach's extensive use of unpublished archival materials, as well as a number of interviews with actors, directors, producers, cinematographers, and others involved in the making of Ashby's films. This volume will interest film and television scholars, as well as readers interested in filmmakers of the 1970s. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: The Actress Karen Hollinger, 2013-10-08 The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress first examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and the Hollywood actress. Combining theories of screen acting and of film stardom, The Actress presents a synthesis of methodologies and offers the student and scholar a new approach to these two subjects of study. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Awkward Mary Cappello, 2014-02-24 Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Mary Cappello[’s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed.” —MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems “A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.” —SARAH WATERS, author of The Night Watch and The Little Stranger Without awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys—from Russia, to Italy, to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text—to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit. Mary Cappello is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, which won a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them. Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Male Sex Work and Society Victor Minichiello, John Scott, 2014-09-02 This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in which we view both male sex work as a field of commerce and male sex workers themselves. Leading contributors examine the field both historically and cross-culturally from fields including public health, sociology, psychology, social services, history, filmography, economics, mental health, criminal justice, geography, and migration studies, and more. Synthesizing introductions by the editors help the reader understand the implications of the findings and conclusions for scholars, practitioners, students, and members of the interested/concerned public. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Los Angeles Magazine , 1998-10 Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: In Full Flower Lois W. Banner, 1992 And we see the emergence that followed of the idealized, domesticated, and sentimentalized nuclear family centered around the mother--and the concurrent vilification or mockery of the older unmarried woman, which continues to the present. Banner provides new perspective on such subjects as goddess-young god stories in ancient religions, witchcraft, menopause, changes in male and female dress, the rise of the grandmother as a social type, and affectionate and erotic relationships through history, particularly between older women and younger men. She contemplates the mature women portrayed in high and popular art, from Penelope in the Odyssey and the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. She writes about attempts over the centuries to mute the voices of older women--and about those who could not be silenced, from Sappho to Elizabeth I, from the women of France's eighteenth-century salons to nineteenth-century reformers and twentieth-century writers. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Los Angeles Magazine , 1997-08 Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: MANScript Julia Keys, 2018-05-01 The MANScript is the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving after infidelity by Julia Keys (ex-wife of TV presenter Richard Keys) and Jacqui Coles. There is a script to infidelity, it's repeated time and time again, and this book will help you identify that script....and more. This is NOT a man-bashing book, the aim is to help those who have been cheated on to feel empowered rather than weakened by their experiences. Filled with real life testimonials, The MANScript will help you navigate the tumultuous times to come out stronger and happier. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Beware of Dogs Barbara Hayes MS MFT, 2010-09-21 Whether a woman is sixteen years old or sixty, dating is a lot like navigating a mine field. When a relationship is good, it feels like we are soaring on top of the world. But more often than we would like to admit, things can go wrong; only after the smoke clears do we realize we never noticed the warning signs. Beware of Dogs: How to Avoid Dating Disasters helps women learn the important lessons gained from bad relationships while providing expert guidance leading them down a path to becoming happier, more self-fulfilled human beings. Barbara Hayes is a relationship therapist who relies on both her professional and personal experiences to help women discern whether their guy is nice or narcissistic, quirky or disturbed, intrigued or obsessed. Along with personal anecdotes and case studies, she includes fun quizzes and checklists that make it easy to sort out the dirty dogs from the dream guys and learn whether a partners habits are merely annoying or red flags signaling that the relationship is headed for disaster. Beware of Dogs: How to Avoid Dating Disasters provides the practical tools and suggestions that will teach any woman how to make wise relationship choices. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Aging Femininities Josephine Dolan, 2020-05-15 Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now; but what kinds of representations are being offered, and how can we make sense of them in the context of post-feminism and global economic change? Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations offers a timely intervention into the hiatus between the visibility of aging femininity in contemporary circuits of culture and its marginalisation in cultural theory. From “graceful agers” and Saga subscribers, to make-over models and pop divas, each of the essays in this collection interrogates the different manifestations of “aging femininity” in terms of both its historic invisibility and its new visibility. The book forges links between contemporary “lived” experience and feminist cultural theory and research, often through the direct and autobiographical knowledge of the writers themselves. Divided into four sections – Cultural Herstories, Regulations and Transgressions, Problematic Postfeminists? and Divas and Dolls – plus a thought-provoking photo essay, it wrests the discourse of aging away from the twin hegemonies of consumer culture and gerontology to present a diverse selection of essays and positions. Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations establishes the long overlooked richness and the complexity of this field of study. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Typewriters in Love Lisa Corra, 2023-01-06 This book acquaints the reader with underground events and unusual themes pertaining to the 1960s. The novel, which is filled with historical, musical, and literary references, is set in the vibrant cosmopolitan port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the years 1968 and 1969. The story entails the twists and turns of the complex relationship between Francesca DeFiori and Zoe Verret, who are both in publishing in the late sixties. They are dynamic women for their times, struggling with their boyfriends and their mutual romantic love in a society promoting heterosexuality. All the characters in this enticing plot are compelling with their own roller-coaster tales interconnected with the main characters’ tales, leading to an unexpected and explosive finale. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: What a Girl Wants? Diane Negra, 2009-06-02 From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants? explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Focusing on a diverse range of media forms, including film, TV, advertising and journalism, Diane Negra holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject who finds herself centralized in commodity culture to a largely unprecedented degree at a time when Hollywood romantic comedies, chick-lit, and female-centred primetime TV dramas all compete for her attention and spending power. The models and anti-role models analyzed in the book include the chick flick heroines of princess films, makeover movies and time travel dramas, celebrity brides and bravura mothers, ‘Runaway Bride’ sensation Jennifer Wilbanks, the sex workers, flight attendants and nannies who maintain such a high profile in postfeminist popular culture, the authors of postfeminist panic literature on dating, marriage and motherhood and the domestic gurus who propound luxury lifestyling as a showcase for the ‘achieved’ female self. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Rock Hudson John Mercer, 2015-02-20 Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s; an ideal that was to be questioned and ultimately undermined during the years to follow by lurid accounts of his private life and his death from AIDS related illness. This illuminating analysis of Hudson's career reassesses the perceived disparity between his public persona and his 'true' nature. Exploring his unique qualities as a performer and exposing the role of his agent, producers and directors in the construction of his image, John Mercer unpicks Hudson's stardom to reveal a more complex star identity than has hitherto been understood. Foregrounding the ways in which Hudson's career provides insights into the nature of American popular culture and attitudes towards gender and sexuality, Mercer ultimately depicts Hudson as a star who embodied a period of transition between the old Hollywood and the new. |
| older woman younger man relationship hollywood: Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction Paul Thompson, 2024-06-28 This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the “masculinity crisis” of the era in which they were written. The key issue of these novels is couplehood as much as sexuality, and the instability of masculinity leads to the instability of the couple. Thompson coins the term “heteroemulative” to describe the struggle that both heterosexual and homosexual couples have in conforming to heteronormativity. As several of these novels have been republished and remain in print, they have taken on a new relevance to issues of sexuality and gender in the twentyfirst century, and this study will attract readers within that area of interest. A valuable read for sociologists studying gender roles, and social historians of the cold war period in the United States. It is suitable for readers of all academic levels, from undergraduate, through postgraduate, to scholars and researchers, but also for a general readership. |
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Elder vs. Older: What’s the Difference? - Two Minute English
Mar 28, 2024 · At its core, elder is a term exclusively applied to people that frequently implies familial seniority or respect within a lineage. This distinction sets it apart from older, which …
Elder or Older? What's the difference between 'Elder' and 'Older ...
In summary, the main difference between "elder" and "older" is that "elder" is a more formal word that is often used to describe someone who holds a position of authority or responsibility, while …
OLDER Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Older, elder imply having greater age than something or someone else. Older is the usual form of the comparative of old: This building is older than that one. Elder, now greatly restricted in …
OLDER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of OLD is dating from the remote past : ancient. How to use old in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Old.
Older - definition of older by The Free Dictionary
Of or relating to a long life or to people who have had long lives: a ripe old age. b. Having or exhibiting the physical characteristics of age: a prematurely old face. c. Having or exhibiting …
Elder vs. Older: What’s the Difference? - Writing Explained
When to Use Older. If the main point of your sentence is simply to showcase the fact of advanced age, then older is usually a better word choice. For example, The public opinion poll was a …
What does older mean? - Definitions.net
Older typically refers to something or someone that is relatively advanced in age compared to others. It can be used to describe individuals who have reached a certain stage in their life, …
OLDER definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
older is the usual form of the comparative of old: This building is older than that one. elder, now greatly restricted in application, is used chiefly to indicate seniority in age as between any two …
Older Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
Between middle age and extreme old age. Comparative form of old: more old, elder, senior. My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He's older by eleven months, not quite a year older than …
older, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English …
What does the word older mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word older , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation …
Elder vs. Older: What’s the Difference? - Two Minute English
Mar 28, 2024 · At its core, elder is a term exclusively applied to people that frequently implies familial seniority or respect within a lineage. This distinction sets it apart from older, which …
Elder or Older? What's the difference between 'Elder' and 'Older ...
In summary, the main difference between "elder" and "older" is that "elder" is a more formal word that is often used to describe someone who holds a position of authority or responsibility, while …
