Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture: Representations in Film, Music, Literature, and Social Media - Paperback

by Nicole Haring (Editor), Roberta Maierhofer (Editor), Barbara Ratzenböck (Editor)

As social spaces are culturally diverse and digitally networked, the reality of our lives is shaped by processes of globalization and digitization. This leads to the question of whether popular cultures enable or impede (inter-)cultural exchange and global communication. To explore this, the contributors to this volume analyze representations of the intersections of gender and age/ing in cultural and media consumption, such as literature, film, music, and social media. The interconnectedness between gender and aging has been evident since the 1990s and enabled the recognition of age as a cultural category - now is the time to take this intersectional analysis further.

Author Biography

Nicole Haring is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at Universität Graz, Austria, working on gender and aging studies, environmental humanities, contemporary US-American literatures, Inter-American studies, and critical pedagogies. Recently, she finished her doctorate at Universität Graz with honors working on intergenerational storytelling on gender and education.
Roberta Maierhofer is a professor of American studies and director of the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research focuses on (Inter)American literature and culture, gender and age/aging.
Barbara Ratzenböck is a sociologist and senior scientist at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research and teaching focus on digitalization, gender, and generations, as well as Inter-American studies.