Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture

by Suzanna Danuta Walters

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In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge, Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played by Meryl Streep. These dramas of conflict and the ambivalent struggle for separation have been central to popular images of mothers and daughters...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520086562

ISBN13:9780520086562

Release Date:June 1994

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:295 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Americas Family Relationships Motherhood Parenting & Relationships Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Women in History Women's Studies

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