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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... women's writing and twentieth-century women's melodrama. She includes discussion of the appropriation of minority mother-discourse, and then charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America ...
... discourses 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE HISTORICAL SPHERE: Motherhood as institution and social discourse 3. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPHERE AND MOTHERHOOD DISCOURSE Part II Motherhood and fictional representation 4. WOMEN'S WRITING, MELODRAMA AND ...
... motherhood has been one – if not the – major emotional, inter-subjective ... motherhood was still rare and barely socially acceptable, so that support systems were ... discourses and institutions, I could not happily combine sex, work and ...
... women living in North America. It is written at a moment of dramatic transition in concepts of the mother produced through changing economic, social and political relations and discourses, through new consciousness about ethnic ...
... Maternal in Melodrama and the Woman's Film from 1910–1940,” in C. Gledhill (ed.), (1987) Home is Where the Heart is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman's Film, London: British Film Institute; “Discourses of the Mother in Postmodern Film ...
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 |