num_pages: 268
description: From nineteenth century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres.
language: English
title: Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama
titlecomplete: Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Routledge