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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... biological or adopted) informs my examination of cultural products (i.e. I am looking for discourses setting forth a mother's subjectivity), but, as will become clear, dominant materials (significantly) are rarely interested in any such ...
... biological norm) necessarily operated according to the dominant discourse. Some presumably did, others did not; as in any period, on the level of lived experience there is clearly a wide range of social practices. These, I believe ...
... biological role) that the mother comes into things at all. Most of Emile's education is in either the Father's or the male Tutor's hands, but because the woman must have a part, Rousseau has to attend to her preparation for mothering ...
... biological and political economy of her world.” Kerber notes that the nursing mother was the obvious candidate for keeping the spinning wheel turning and tending the open-hearth fire in pre-industrial days. Before the American ...
... biological and social forces (Darwin, Marx), and those dealing with the “inner” (or private) sphere (Freud). Darwin's theories about the origin of the species and the descent of man had been prepared for by others since the late ...
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 |