Post-Feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex

By Alison Horbury

Book Overview

Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349569445
• ISBN13: 9781349569441
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"