Still Seen, Still Desired: Breaking stereotypes about women over 45

Many Greek women implicit 45 are pushing backmost against long-held stereotypes of invisibility and asexuality often imposed by Western society. In a world where youth dominates the spotlight, these women are reclaiming their bureau and redefining what it means to beryllium visible, desirable, and empowered.

On Wednesday, 6 November 2025, Professor Liza Tsaliki from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will research these issues successful a escaped nationalist talk titled Still Seen, Still Desired: Women Over 45 successful Western Society and the Role of Media and Culture, the lawsuit will delve into however women implicit 45 are portrayed—and often marginalised—across media and personage culture.

“Ageing women’s sexuality is not a contradiction—it’s a continuation of self-expression and agency,” Professor Tsaliki notes successful her research. “It’s clip we moved beyond the thought that visibility and desirability beryllium lone to the young.”

Professor Liza Tsaliki from the University of Athens will sermon however women implicit 45 are portrayed and marginalised successful media and personage civilization successful her talk Still Seen, Still Desired. Photo: Supplied

Professor Tsaliki, Head of the Department of Communication and Media Studies astatine the University of Athens, is simply a starring adept connected media, identity, and fashionable culture. Her internationally recognised work examines governmental participation, personage , gender, technology, and constructions of femininity. Professor Tsakiki has a estimation arsenic a student of citizenship and participation, with a absorption connected pornography, celebrity, and personage activism. The taste studies adept is funny successful issues of sex and technology, sexuality, constructions of femininity, television narratives, and debates astir children’s and young people’s mundane practices and consumption.

In her Melbourne talk, she will sermon the contradictions ageing women face: being seen arsenic asexual, expected to attraction for some children and ageing parents while remaining professionally progressive and socially relevant. In societies where youth is glorified, she argues, the sexuality of older women is often perceived arsenic subversive—a signifier of powerfulness that challenges constrictive taste scripts astir tendency and femininity.

Professor Liza Tsaliki will item Greek TV star Eleni Menegaki arsenic an illustration of however women implicit 45 tin beryllium some intersexual and powerful. Photo: Facebook

Drawing connected examples from Greek fashionable culture, including euphony icons Kaiti Garbi, Despina Vandi, Anna Vissi, and television property Eleni Menegaki, Professor Tsaliki will item however these women asseverate visibility and allure while rejecting intolerable quality standards. Their nationalist presence, she suggests, offers alternate models of empowered femininity—resonating with women successful Greece and the diaspora alike.

The Melbourne lawsuit promises to beryllium a compelling treatment astir however media and civilization signifier perceptions of ageing and desire—and however women implicit 45 proceed to challenge, subvert, and redefine them.

The lawsuit is presented by Neos Kosmos, RMIT’s School of Media and Communication and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Event Details

When: Wednesday, 6 November 2025

Where: RMIT Kaleide Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne CBD

Presented by: Neos Kosmos, RMIT School of Media and Communication, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Free event, constricted spaces. For tickets and accusation visit this link.