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Post-Feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex

Post-Feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex

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Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1349569445
ISBN13: 9781349569441
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 24 2017
Pages: 217
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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