From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations of the mother from 1830 to the postmodernist present; the psychoanalytic, which discusses theories of the mother from Freud to Lacan and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in cultural representations: in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Marnie and the...
From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood a...
On his death in October 1990, Louis Althusser remained one of the most controversial of the master thinkers to emerge from the Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s.
On his death in October 1990, Louis Althusser remained one of the most controversial of the master thinkers to emerge from the Parisian intellectual s...