Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

Contributor(s): Kaplan, E Ann (Author)

ISBN: 9780415011273

Publisher: Routledge

Binding Types:

Paperback

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Pub Date: May 7, 1992

Dewey: 810.93520431

LCCN: 91-45539

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.71" H x 9.25" L x 6.22" W ( 1.18 lbs) 266 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | American | General | Feminist

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: 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.

Review Quotes:

`This is scholarship at its pinnacle.' - Library Journal

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