Motherhood and representation : the mother in popular culture and melodrama

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Motherhood and representation : the mother in popular culture and melodrama

E. Ann Kaplan

Routledge, 1992

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and indexes

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: hbk ISBN 9780415011266

内容説明

From novels of the 19th 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 Handmaid's Tale". Kaplan's analysis identifies two dominant Western paradigms of the mother as "angel" and "witch", evident in 19th century women's writing and 20th century "women's film". Charting the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America, she argues that modern reproductive technologies have created dramatic changes in the representation of the mother figure. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics of gender and women's studies, film studies and cultural studies.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415011273

内容説明

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.

目次

  • Part 1 History and Theory Discourses
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The Historical Sphere
  • Chapter 3 The Psychoanalytic Sphere and Motherhood Discourse
  • Part 2 Motherhood and Fictional Representation
  • Chapter 4 Women'S Writing, Melodrama and Film
  • Chapter 5 The Maternal Melodrama: The Sacrifice Paradigm
  • Chapter 6 The Maternal Melodrama: The "Phallic" Mother Paradigm
  • Chapter 7 The "Resisting" Text Within the Patriarchal "Feminine"
  • Chapter 8 The "Resisting" Maternal Woman'S Film 1930-60
  • Chapter 9 Sex, Work and Mother/Fatherhood

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