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- Cultural gerontology highlights how age-related cultural representations can perpetuate ageism, especially in the context of women.
- A focus group of older women actors reveals that workforce dynamics and audience perceptions affect their career prospects.
- The paper argues that ageism in cultural industries restricts the development of diverse and positive portrayals of aging women.
Article Abstract
Cultural gerontology has developed critical work around cultural representations of age and aging and their role in the reproduction of ageism. However, the cultural industries as producers and disseminators of representations remain under researched. This paper draws on a focus group with four older women actors to argue that workforce allocation and assumptions about audience demographics intersect with cultural attitudes around women's aging to impact on older women actors' career opportunities. We argue that ageism within the cultural industries is limiting our ability to develop diverse and non-ageist cultural representation of women's aging.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.1910464 | DOI Listing |
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