“对女人来说，35岁是退房时间”：对情景喜剧《都市女孩》的一种批评

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101326

Aagje Swinnen, Sara De Vuyst

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这篇文章对情景喜剧《Girls5eva》进行了批判性的解读。这部喜剧讲述的是20世纪90年代一个风靡一时的女子组合试图卷土重来的故事。在对流行媒体和音乐行业中老年女性的代表性进行学术研究的基础上，我们的阅读首先解决了生活阶段和正常生活过程的越界之间的模糊界限。其次，我们考察了女性权力的话语及其与中年转型的关系。第三，我们关注音乐行业的年龄歧视，以及这对中年女性艺术家的回归意味着什么。我们得出的结论是，尽管《Girls5eva》批判性地参与了衰老、成功和女性赋权的叙事，但其中一些幽默的使用最终通过依赖年龄歧视和性别歧视的隐喻，恢复了压迫性的意识形态，并为女性在中年克服羞耻、获得社会正义提供了很少的视角。

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“For ladies, 35 is check-out time”: An anocritical approach to the sitcom Girls5eva

This article offers an anocritical reading of Girls5eva, a sitcom about a 1990s one-hit girl group trying to make a comeback. Building on scholarship into the representation of aging women in popular media and the music industry, our reading first addresses fuzzy boundaries between life stages and transgressions of the normalized life course. Second, we examine the discourse of girl power and its relationship to midlife transformation. Third, we focus on ageism in the music industry and what it means for the comeback of female artists in midlife. We conclude that while Girls5eva critically engages with narratives of aging, success, and female empowerment, some of its uses of humor ultimately reinstates oppressive ideologies by relying on ageist and sexist tropes and offers little perspective for women to overcome shame in midlife and get social justice.

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Journal of Aging Studies GERONTOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

17.40%

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审稿时长

50 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Aging Studies features scholarly papers offering new interpretations that challenge existing theory and empirical work. Articles need not deal with the field of aging as a whole, but with any defensibly relevant topic pertinent to the aging experience and related to the broad concerns and subject matter of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. The journal emphasizes innovations and critique - new directions in general - regardless of theoretical or methodological orientation or academic discipline. Critical, empirical, or theoretical contributions are welcome.