2011-2020

‘Get a life, ladies. Your old one is not coming back’: ageing, ageism and the lifespan of female celebrity

This chapter explores the various forms that the ‘cougar’, the mature and sophisticated woman who dates younger men, takes in television and film in the new millennium, contrasting fictional representations with ‘real’ celebrity cougars currently ill the media spotlight. It also examines Cougar Town, the ABC sitcom launched in September 2009, starring Courteney Cox as …

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‘Bad Mum Guilt’: the representation of ‘work-life balance’ in UK women’s magazines

The social policy climate, labour market trends and gendered arrangements for paid and family work mean that ‘work-life balance’ remains a key social issue in the UK. Media representations of ‘work-life balance’ are a key source for the construction of gender and working motherhood. Despite evidence of gendered representations in media coverage of other social …

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‘As a slave woman and as a mother’: women and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

This article explores how enslaved and freed women in Rio de Janeiro and Havana, the capital cities of the Americas’ last two slaveholding territories, played a crucial and specific part in helping speed and shape the gradual emancipation processes that unfolded simultaneously in each context during the 1870s and 1880s. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Foreign …

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