LEADER 03824pam 2200553 a 450 001 9910496151403321 005 20230828225629.0 010 $a0-520-91503-8 010 $a0-585-28912-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520915039 035 $a(CKB)111057870442160 035 $a(MH)002624270-2 035 $a(DE-B1597)568515 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520915039 035 $a(OCoLC)1224278810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771644 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771644 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870442160 100 $a19910917d1992 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLives together/worlds apart$emothers and daughters in popular culture /$fSuzanna Danuta Walters$b[electronic resource] 205 $aFirst Paperback Printing 1994, Reprint 2020 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d1992 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 295 p. )$cill. ; 311 $a0-520-08656-2 311 $a0-520-07851-9 320 $aFilmography: p. 277-279. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index. 327 $tThe Sacrament of Separation / The Penance of Affiliation: On the Subject of Mothers and Daughters --$tFrom Sacrificial Stella to Maladjusted Mildred: De(class)ifying Mothers and Daughters --$tFather Knows Best about the Woman Question: Familial Harmony and Feminine Containment --$tThe Turning Point: Mothers and Daughters at the Birth of Second-Wave Feminism --$tTerms of Enmeshment: Feminist Discourses of Mothers and Daughters --$tParting Glances: Feminist Images of Mothers and Daughters --$tWhose Life Is It Anyway? Fatal Retractions in the Backlash Eighties --$tBeyond Separation: Located Lives and Situated Tales. 330 $aIn the 1940's 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 in the last half-century in the U.S. Walters boldly challenges these dichotomies and proposes an innovative and multilayered understanding of the cultural construction of the mother/daughter relationship. In a discussion of popular media ranging from themes of maternal martyrdom to maternal malevolence, Walters shows that since World War II, mainstream culture has generally represented the mother/daughter relationship as one of never-ending conflict and thus promoted an "ideology of separation" as necessary to the daughter's emancipation and maturity. This ideological move is placed in a social context of the anti-woman backlash of the early post-war period and the renewed anti-feminism of the Reagan and Bush years. Walters uses exceptions to mainstream imagery-films such as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, television shows like "Maude," novels like The Joy Luck Club-to offer evidence of alternative traditions and paradigms. Timely and vividly argued, Lives Together/Worlds Apart makes a brilliant contribution to discussions of popular culture and feminism. 606 $aMothers and daughters 606 $aWomen in popular culture 606 $aMothers and daughters$zUnited States 615 0$aMothers and daughters. 615 0$aWomen in popular culture. 615 0$aMothers and daughters 676 $a306.874/3 700 $aWalters$b Suzanna Danuta$01234123 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bSLR 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496151403321 996 $aLives together$92866603 997 $aUNINA