Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The by Alison Horbury

By Alison Horbury

Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the parable of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist tv cultures the place, she argues, it features as a symptom expressing a fancy round the query of sexual distinction - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', the place this question has been another way foreclosed.

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