标题：Melissa Ames and Sarah Burcon (2016). How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman’s Life. From Toddlers-In-Tiaras To Cougars-On-The Prowl. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137566171 (hardback)
期刊名称：International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
印刷版ISSN：1652-8670
出版年度：2017
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：109-111
出版社：Linkoping University Electronic Press
摘要：How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman’s Life explores to what extentgender equality has still not been reached in different stages of a woman’slife, despite reassurance from media that ‘‘we are living in a wonderlandfull of female success’’ (p. 1). This book draws on contemporary texts novels, films, TV series, self-help books, songs and musicals popularisedin the USA but are also widely read, watched and performed in other partsof the world. Ames and Burcon focus their analysis on stereotypical rolescreated and perpetuated in these expressions of popular culture, aboutgirls and women from childhood to middle age and old age. Thesestereotypes paint a rosy and naı¨ve picture of the life stages through which awoman undergoes, but they also send messages about women’s socialisationand gender expectations, where age is a relevant marker in consideringacceptable attitudes and choices. The book is divided into nine chapters,each tackling different stages that represent women’s social developmentas they mature from children to older women. Thus, the authors write onchildhood through adolescence in Chapter 2, moving towards stages that* Maricel Oro´ Piqueras, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, Lleida,SpainInternational Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2017 11(1): 109111. # The Author109traditionally mark women’s lives such as dating, marriage and motherhood in Chapters 37. Importantly, Chapters 8 and 9 focus on latemiddleage and old age, stages that have been usually overlooked infeminist criticism.
