Lives Together - Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture

by Suzanna Danuta Walters

Book Overview

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played by Meryl Streep. These dramas of conflict and the ambivalent struggle for separation have been central to popular images of mothers and daughters in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520078519
• ISBN13: 9780520078512
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"