Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Nebula
- Magazine Year
- 2007
- Magazine Number
- 4
- Creator
- Gennaro, Stephen
- Thesaurus
- gender, vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, televisie, populaire cultuur, leeftijdsgroepen, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This essay examines the marketing discourse of 'perpetual adolescence,' which trains both young and old to be consumers of 'youth' in a marketplace that privileges adolescence over adulthood. The main purveyor of this discourse is the media, and even more specifically, television, which de-stabilizes identity formation by over-saturating the individual with images and identities for possible ownership and consumption.