mothers and daughters in popular culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walters, Suzanna Danuta
- Publish Year
- 1992
- Shelfmark
- VS 35 1992 - B
- Thesaurus
- moeder dochterrelatie, populaire cultuur, sociale bewegingen, vrouwenbladen, televisie, media, psychologie, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The author explores representations of mother-daughter relationships in popular media over the last 60 years, focusing on the ideologies of those representations and their connection to social movements. She deconstructs many psychological 'truths' about the mother-daughter relationship in order to reveal the ideological agendas behind them. Walters covers film, women's magazines, television sitcoms, and novels. She is generous to the reader of psychoanalytic discourse, explaining in simple language these theories mean. A new feminist psychology in which self-development is measured by specific relationships and not by a woman's ability to let go of her mother and enter a world of male-identification.