Getting Noticed: Images of Older Women in Australian Popular Culture

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Getting Noticed: Images of Older Women in Australian Popular Culture

Despite the fact that women over the age of 45 buy more books than any other demographic group they rarely feature as the central character in Australian popular fiction. When they do appear it is usually in minor roles where they are characterised in negatively stereotypical ways. This paper argues...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Byrski, Elizabeth
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	British Australian Studies Asssociation 2010
Subjects:	women's writing popular culture older women popular fiction feminist fiction
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45006

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