Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

The Persephone Complex

• Author(s): Alison Horbury,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 217
• ISBN_10: 1137511370
  ISBN_13: 9781137511379
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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.