Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television : the Persephone complex /

Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television : the Persephone complex /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Horbury, Alison, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description:	viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Persephone -- (Greek deity) -- On television. Persephone -- (Greek deity) Women on television. Heroines on television. Sex role on television. Feminism. Feminism. Heroines on television. Sex role on television. Women on television.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10896025

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ISBN:	9781137511362 1137511362
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-206) and index.
Summary:	"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. She takes four television heroines dramatizing this Persephone symptom - Ally McBeal, Sydney Bristow, Veronica Mars, and Meredith Grey - to show what is unconscious in this symptom, and identifies an impasse in feminist cultural criticisms as they respond to post-feminist cultures where ideas about feminine sexuation conflict with poststructuralist thought on the topic of 'woman'. She introduces psychoanalytic approaches to the novel to rethink the engagement of audiences with long-form serial narrative, and suggests that post-feminist discourses manifesting in Persephone's story offer us a cultural symptom that, when analysed, offers us new reflections on feminism today"--

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-206) and index.
ISBN:	9781137511362 1137511362