Monstrous Motherhood
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Monstrous Motherhood
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Author : Marilyn Francus
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Monstrous Motherhood written by Marilyn Francus and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era of ideal motherhood. Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of good mothers, ostensibly the most domestic of females. With startling frequency, the best mother was absent, disembodied, voiceless, or dead. British culture told tales almost exclusively of wicked, surrogate, or spectral mothers—revealing the defects of domestic ideology, the cultural fascination with standards and deviance, and the desire to police maternal behaviors. Monstrous Motherhood analyzes eighteenth-century motherhood in light of the inconsistencies among domestic ideology, narrative, and historical practice. If domesticity was so important, why is the good mother’s story absent or peripheral? What do the available maternal narratives suggest about domestic ideology and the expectations and enactment of motherhood? By focusing on literary and historical mothers in novels, plays, poems, diaries, conduct manuals, contemporary court cases, realist fiction, fairy tales, satire, and romance, Marilyn Francus reclaims silenced maternal voices and perspectives. She exposes the mechanisms of maternal marginalization and spectralization in eighteenth-century culture and revises the domesticity thesis. Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women’s studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields.
Monstrous Mothers Troubling Tropes
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Author : Andrea O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Demeter Press
Release Date : 2021-08-01
Monstrous Mothers Troubling Tropes written by Andrea O'Reilly and has been published by Demeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The contributors to this collection explore a multitude of interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore literary, cinematic, and real-life monstrous mothers, seeking to uncover social sources and results of these monstrosities.
Monstrous Mothers
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Author : Andrea O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Monstrous Mothers written by Andrea O'Reilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic books categories.
Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mytholog.
The Monster Within
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Author : Barbara Almond
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-11
The Monster Within written by Barbara Almond and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Social Science categories.
Weaving together case histories with rich examples from literature and popular culture, Almond uncovers the roots of ambivalence, tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children, and describes a spectrum of maternal behaviour - from normal feelings to highly disturbed mothering.
The Mother Of All Questions
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2017-05-25
The Mother Of All Questions written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Literary Collections categories.
Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings empathy to the silences in men's lives as well as the silencing of women's lives; celebrates the ways feminism has shifted in recent years to reclaim rape jokes, revise canons, and rethink our everyday lives.
Monstrous Imagination
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Author : Marie-Hélène Huet
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1993
Monstrous Imagination written by Marie-Hélène Huet and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.
Maternal Horror Film
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Author : S. Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Maternal Horror Film written by S. Arnold and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Social Science categories.
Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.
The Monstrous Feminine
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Author : Barbara Creed
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-04
The Monstrous Feminine written by Barbara Creed and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-04 with Performing Arts categories.
In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, T
Women Monstrosity And Horror Film
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Author : Erin Harrington
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-10
Women Monstrosity And Horror Film written by Erin Harrington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with Social Science categories.
Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries – of taste, of bodies, of reason – are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the maternal and the sexual to expose the underpinnings of the social, political and philosophical othering of women. This book offers an in-depth analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of ‘gynaehorror’: films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror, from reproductive and sexual organs, to virginity, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and finally to menopause. Some of the themes explored include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female (hetero)sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; embodiment and subjectivity in horror films about pregnancy and abortion; reproductive technologies, monstrosity and ‘mad science’; the discursive construction and interrogation of monstrous motherhood; and the relationships between menopause, menstruation, hagsploitation and ‘abject barren’ bodies in horror. The book not only offers a feminist interrogation of gynaehorror, but also a counter-reading of the gynaehorrific, that both accounts for and opens up new spaces of productive, radical and subversive monstrosity within a mode of representation and expression that has often been accused of being misogynistic. It therefore makes a unique contribution to the study of women in horror film specifically, while also providing new insights in the broader area of popular culture, gender and film philosophy.
Managing The Monstrous Feminine
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Author : Jane M. Ussher
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
Managing The Monstrous Feminine written by Jane M. Ussher and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Feminism categories.
Jane Ussher takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.