Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and MelodramaFrom novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations of the mother from 1830 to the postmodernist present; the psychoanalytic, which discusses theories of the mother from Freud to Lacan and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in cultural representations: in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Marnie and the The Handmaid's Tale, as well as in journalism and popular manuals on motherhood. Kaplan's analysis identifies two dominant paradigms of the mother as `Angel' and `Witch', and charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America. |
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... Rousseau and the nineteenth century to postmodernism. I locate a pre-modern mother (who lies beyond my frame); an early modern mother (who emerges in Europe with Rousseau and the institutions needed by the first Industrial Revolution ...
... Rousseau's lead. Understanding this prevailing or “dominant” discourse is crucial even for groups that the dominant marginalizes (e.g. Black, Jewish, Hispanic and other American ethnic groups, the various working classes, the poor and ...
... Rousseau's innovations need to be set. Badinter (1980) argued that before Rousseau, childhood in France had not been particularly valued, as a stage. She shows that some experts, for example, continued to espouse Augustinian assumptions ...
... Rousseau, to a new focus on the child, that produced the modern mother (in her role as there specially to care for ... Rousseau's ideas of child-rearing, first articulated in his well-known Emile (1762), were revolutionary. It is their ...
... Rousseau has to attend to her preparation for mothering. For Rousseau, the girl's biological processes shape her to be a mother, and thus require an attention that has no parallel for the boy. The very survival of the human race depends ...
Contents
WOMENS WRITING MELODRAMA AND FILM | |
THE SACRIFICE PARADIGM Ellen Woods | |
THE PHALLIC MOTHER PARADIGM | |
THE RESISTING MATERNAL WOMANS FILM 193060 Arzners | |
Consumerism science | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Names index | |
Other editions - View all
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan Limited preview - 2013 |
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan No preview available - 1992 |