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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... sexually active within a meaningful adult relationship. At the time my daughter was born in 1968, combining sex, work and motherhood was still rare and barely socially acceptable, so that support systems were minimal. The costs to both ...
... Sexual Difference.” In stimulating meetings I learned a great deal that was important for the book about diverse psychoanalytic mothering theories. I look forward to the series of essays, edited by Donna Bassin, Maureen Honey and Meryl ...
... sexuality (see especially the Introduction in Foucault 1978). I explore the ramifications of what is a prevailing cultural discourse (in the period of study) of the Ideal “angel” Mother pitted against her evil “witch” opposite, as it ...
... sexual “revolution”) and their accompanying reproductive technologies (test-tube babies, in-vitro sounding, gene manipulation, surrogate mothering) confront the continuing traditional discourses that I have discussed and shown in ...
... sexual equality (he was later to have a real one in Mary Wollstonecraft), 4 Rousseau concludes that Although here and there a woman may have few children, what difference does it make? Is it any the less a woman's business to be a ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
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 |