Bridget Jones

'Formerly Hot': Is This What Happens to Women After 40?

In the economically happy Clintonite 1990s, a distinctive sort of genre fiction called chick lit surged across the land, topping bestseller lists and inspiring TV shows and films. It has yet to fade one bit. Chick lit, a term that came to define a genre led by Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones" in 1996, celebrates modern women in humorous and lighthearted eye-candy prose as professionally successful or inventive, youngish, independent, sexually avaricious, shopaholic, nipped-and-tucked, trendsetter, sexy and perky and totally self-involved. In other words, look at Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the ...

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