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

Horbury, Alison

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-07-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137511362

DOI: 10.1057/9781137511379

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 217