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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... Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christopher Strong, Imitation of Life, Three Men and a Baby, and The Handmaid's Tale. Kaplan's analysis complicates two ...
... Feminist Perspective,” Women and Performance (1983) 1(1): 40–8; “Mothering, Feminism and Representation: The Maternal in Melodrama and the Woman's Film from 1910–1940,” in C. Gledhill (ed.), (1987) Home is Where the Heart is: Studies in ...
... feminist and theoretical ones.3 Much of the work has come out of the social sciences, is of an empirical nature and involves contemporary mothers and children. Since my work has to do with representations of the mother, and largely ...
... feminists), and it is hoped that the knowledge this study produces will have some impact on her often conflicted, difficult and marginalized life. To the extent that discourses construct mothers on the level of lived reality, work that ...
... feminist research on female subjectivity, spectatorship and representation. The first section on the “historical ... feminisms), the rapid rise of multinational corporate capitalisms (the international financial elite) and the electronic ...
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 |