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Author: E. Ann Kaplan
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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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Title Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama
Author E. Ann Kaplan
Binding Hardback
Pages 268
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Publication date 2016-02-01
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781138169760 / 1138169765
Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Culture in motion pictures, Popular culture - United States
Dewey Decimal Code 810.935

About the author

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and Comparative Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, the State University of New York. She is the author of Women and Film and Rocking Around the Clock, and editor of Psychoanalysis and Cinema.

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