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Being middle-aged has never exactly been considered the “coolest” life stage for women. Even if Regina George’s mom from Mean Girls tried to convince her daughter’s friends, including Lindsay Lohan’s Cady Heron, that she wasn’t “like a regular mom,” but “a cool mom,” they—and the teenagers watching—knew better.
LuElla D’Amico is an associate professor of English and coordinator of women’s and gender studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. She is the author of Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature and writes widely on faith, girlhood, pop culture, and storytelling.
