Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

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.

• | Author: E. Ann Kaplan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138169765
• | ISBN-13: 9781138169760