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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... relations and discourses, through new consciousness about ethnic difference as well as about how race and gender intersect, and ... relation to minority and gay/lesbian discourses, it will have achieved a main aim. New York, 5 July 1991 ...
... relations and discourses, through new consciousness about ethnic difference as well as about how race and gender intersect, and ... relation to minority and gay/lesbian discourses, it will have achieved a main aim. New York, 5 July 1991 ...
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... relations among the three spheres, but I deliberately avoid constructing a theory that might explain ways in which the spheres are inevitably interconnected. If deconstruction has taught us anything, it is to suspect high-modernist ...
... relations among the three spheres, but I deliberately avoid constructing a theory that might explain ways in which the spheres are inevitably interconnected. If deconstruction has taught us anything, it is to suspect high-modernist ...
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... relation to Ideology is useful in linking the psychoanalytic and the social terrains. There is, however, always a lag between the level of Ideology or what I am calling “Master Discourses,” and that of changes in the social formation ...
... relation to Ideology is useful in linking the psychoanalytic and the social terrains. There is, however, always a lag between the level of Ideology or what I am calling “Master Discourses,” and that of changes in the social formation ...
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... relations, despite their having to be carefully hidden (see e.g. Filene 1986). Through all this, the nuclear family ... relation to recent changes. We have little evidence about the actual nature of mothering work in any historical ...
... relations, despite their having to be carefully hidden (see e.g. Filene 1986). Through all this, the nuclear family ... relation to recent changes. We have little evidence about the actual nature of mothering work in any historical ...
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... relations on the social level, but such scholarship does not interpret its findings or pretend to tell us about the psychic terrain. We should assume that, as now, mothering practices and relations varied enormously within specific ...
... relations on the social level, but such scholarship does not interpret its findings or pretend to tell us about the psychic terrain. We should assume that, as now, mothering practices and relations varied enormously within specific ...
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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