Motherhood and Representation : The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415011272
ISBN-13
9780415011273
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 7th, 1992
Print length
266 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 23.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesGender studies: womenSociology: family & relationships
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From nineteenth century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres.
From 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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