ABSTRACT
In a February 23, 2004 article in The Guardian, cultural critic Cherry Potter identified a new film genre for women, the “older bird” chick flick. Commenting on these films, Potter compared this term to another recent coinage, “chick lit”:
Sorry, that [“older bird”] doesn’t have quite the same ring as “chicklit.” But what else are we to call the recent trend for comedy dramas about the sexual awakening of middle-aged women, particularly those who discover that some men actually find them beautiful without their clothes on? The question is why these comedies are appearing now.
