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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... discussed as an integral part of a discourse (because she really is everywhere) that was spoken by an Other. She was a figure in the design, out-of- focus; or, if in focus, then the brunt of an attack, a criticism, a complaint, usually ...
... discussed in the case of East Lynne (Chapter 5). Melodrama theory is pertinent to both imaginary modes (i.e. nineteenth-century women's writing and twentieth-century film), although it has not been so applied hitherto. The continuing ...
... , gene manipulation, surrogate mothering) confront the continuing traditional discourses that I have discussed and shown in operation in earlier chapters. The most dramatic alteration in mother-representations addressed in the final.
... discussed almost as if it were a fourth branch of government, a device that ensured social control in the gentlest possible way.” Woman's political function was neatly confined completely within the home. Kerber's analysis is important ...
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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 | |
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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 |