Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

By E. Ann Kaplan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415011272
• ISBN13: 9780415011273
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"