Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781137511379
ISBN-13 : 1137511370
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Book Synopsis Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television by : Alison Horbury

Download or read book Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television written by Alison Horbury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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