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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... social discourse 3. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPHERE AND MOTHERHOOD DISCOURSE Part II Motherhood and fictional representation 4. WOMEN'S WRITING, MELODRAMA AND FILM 5. THE MATERNAL MELODRAMA: THE SACRIFICE PARADIGM Ellen Wood's East Lynne and ...
... social and political relations and discourses, through new consciousness about ethnic difference as well as about how race and gender intersect, and through new scientific discoveries regarding reproduction, gestation and birth. As I ...
... social function. Few scholars had been interested in understanding her positioning or her social role from inside the mother's discourse, in whatever context, of whatever type. Few scholars studied the oppressive aspects of patriarchal ...
... social discourses about the mother, changes in the economic and technological spheres, literary and filmic images of the mother, and both psychoanalytic mother discourses and the psychoanalytic processes mothering involves. “Perhaps ...
... social scientists) lies outside my discursive scope, because I believe she is ultimately not-representable as such. She is, nevertheless, enormously important to me (as to many feminists), and it is hoped that the knowledge this study ...
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 |