Heroine And/Or Caricature? The Older Woman in Desperate Housewives

Jennings, Ros ORCID: 0000-0002-5852-9420 and Oro-Piqueras, Maricel (2016) Heroine And/Or Caricature? The Older Woman in Desperate Housewives. In: Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series. Aging Studies (VII). Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Germany, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9783837632767

Preview

Text (Book chapter) Heroine And Or Caricature.pdf - Published Version Download (181kB) | Preview

Abstract

Because postmenopausal women fall outside the scope of postfeminist concerns, the role of the older women within Desperate Housewives has largely gone unnoticed. This paper attempts to reverse this omission by offering an analysis of one of Desperate Housewives’ older female characters, Karen McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten).The following analysis explores the role of Mrs McCluskey both as an older woman within the series and as an example of how older women are perceived, represented and understood within American and Western society more generally.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Maricel Oro-Piqueras was a funded Postdoctoral Student at the Centre for Women. Ageing and Media (University of Gloucestershire) Summer 2015
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Postmenopausal women; Postfeminist; Older women; Television series; Desperate Housewives; REF2021
Subjects:	E History America > E11 America (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation Creative Practice and Theory
Depositing User:	Ros Jennings
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2016 14:47
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2021 12:00
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/3131

University Staff: Request a correction | Repository Editors: Update this record