Motherhood and Representation : The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama
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 EMEast Lynne, Marnie and the EMT.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPHERE
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Motherhood and fictional representation
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Copyright
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Common terms and phrases
American
argue
articulated
baby
Barbara
body
Carlyle
century
Chapter
child
Chodorow
Christopher Strong
codes
complicit
concept
constructed
context
culture
Cynthia
daughter
Delilah
desire
developed
discussed
dominant
East Lynne
East Lynne film
erotic
explore
fantasies
father
feminine
feminism
feminist
fiction
figure
film versions
film's
focus
foetus
Freud
Freudian
gaze
gender
genre
Harriet
heroine
historical
Hollywood
husband
ideal
identification
ideology
images
Imaginary
Irigaray
Isabel
Kristeva
Lacanian
Levison
linked
Lois Weber
look
male
Marnie
maternal melodrama
maternal sacrifice
middle-class
mother-child
mother-daughter
mother-figure
Mother's Day
motherhood discourses
narrative
nineteenth-century
North America
notes
novel
nuclear family
nurturing
Oankali
Oedipal
patriarchal
Peola
phallic
phallus
play
popular
position
postmodern
pre-Oedipal
produced
psychic
psychoanalytic theory
relation
relationship
representations
represents
reproductive technologies
resisting
role
Rousseau
scene
sexual
social
specific
sphere
Stella Dallas
Symbolic
terrain
Uncle Tom's Cabin
unconscious
upper-class
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women
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