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 EMEast Lynne, Marnie and the EMT. |
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Page 85
... husband ; as Barbara points out , if a wife fails in this , her husband will seek amusements elsewhere . At the same time , she must be a devoted mother , taking care of her children's slightest needs . However , she is not to devote ...
... husband ; as Barbara points out , if a wife fails in this , her husband will seek amusements elsewhere . At the same time , she must be a devoted mother , taking care of her children's slightest needs . However , she is not to devote ...
Page 97
... husband's needs first and helps the family along by doubling her labour within the home , only to find , as the film's inter - title tells us , that " With prosperity comes rejection of homely joys . " The husband becomes impatient for ...
... husband's needs first and helps the family along by doubling her labour within the home , only to find , as the film's inter - title tells us , that " With prosperity comes rejection of homely joys . " The husband becomes impatient for ...
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... husband's right to demand and have children is clearly established . Upper - class women , the film argues , owe it to their husbands to provide healthy children . The film also , parenthetically , argues for upper - class women ...
... husband's right to demand and have children is clearly established . Upper - class women , the film argues , owe it to their husbands to provide healthy children . The film also , parenthetically , argues for upper - class women ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPHERE | 27 |
Motherhood and fictional representation | 57 |
Copyright | |
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