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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... oppressive aspects of patriarchal maternal representation or the mother's unwitting acceptance of mythic ideals impossible to achieve on the level of the social formation; or looked at the maternal as figuring the archetypal patriarchal ...
... oppressive aspects of patriarchal maternal representation or the mother's unwitting acceptance of mythic ideals impossible to achieve on the level of the social formation; or looked at the maternal as figuring the archetypal patriarchal ...
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... oppressive for the minority group, came into being, how its very presence constructs (as part of its ideology) other groups as “marginalized.” I do deal with the appropriation of minority discourse by the dominant in Uncle Tom's Cabin ...
... oppressive for the minority group, came into being, how its very presence constructs (as part of its ideology) other groups as “marginalized.” I do deal with the appropriation of minority discourse by the dominant in Uncle Tom's Cabin ...
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... oppressive positioning across the decades; they have found moments in every period when women took up rebellious stances against practices that created hardship and suffering. But this in no way negates the constant presence of myths on ...
... oppressive positioning across the decades; they have found moments in every period when women took up rebellious stances against practices that created hardship and suffering. But this in no way negates the constant presence of myths on ...
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... oppressive social imaginary. The films will be distinguished according to their relative degrees of complicity with, and resistance to, dominant mother paradigms. Chapter 7 explores silent films by Weber, Brennon, Mamoulian and Vidor ...
... oppressive social imaginary. The films will be distinguished according to their relative degrees of complicity with, and resistance to, dominant mother paradigms. Chapter 7 explores silent films by Weber, Brennon, Mamoulian and Vidor ...
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... oppressive ways; it emerges, that is, in the “gaps” of patriarchal hegemony discovered in moments of struggle, disruption, rebellion. It is the unconscious level that I unravel in looking at motherhood from the perspective of ...
... oppressive ways; it emerges, that is, in the “gaps” of patriarchal hegemony discovered in moments of struggle, disruption, rebellion. It is the unconscious level that I unravel in looking at motherhood from the perspective of ...
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 |
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