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The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination : Missing, Presumed Dead

Absent Mothers in Online Media Mothers in Scholarly Research - Present and Absent The Author’s Mother - Revenge, Fear and Longing Psychoanalysis - Maternal Power, Individuation and Matricide Historic Specificity and Socio-Cultural Influences Mother’s Death as Narrative Device Analyzing the Dead/Absent Mother-Trope Notes Works Cited I Theorizing the Absent Mother The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother Notes Works Cited II The Absent Mother as Protector and Advisor Saintly Protection: The Postmortem ‘Mothers’ of Medieval Hagiography ‘Be War Be My Wo’: Gaynour and Her Mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales Slovak and Romani Folk Tales Children’s Stories Mothers’ Stories Conclusion Note Works Cited ‘A dumme thynge’: The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers’ Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin III Shakespeare’s Absent Mothers Revisited ‘Born in a tempest when my mother died’: Shakespeare’s Motherless Daughters Beatrice Marina Perdita Notes Works Cited Ophelia’s Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage: Hamlet and Henry V Gender and Genre: Mothers in Criticism Deconstructing Absence and Silence Missing Mothers in the Shakespearean Context Wives and/or Mothers?Directing Henry V: Absence and Implications Editing Hamlet Note Works Cited IV The Absent Mother as Expendable, or a Threat A Side of Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series Dead, But Not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh’s The Good Neighbors Situating the Missing Mother as Narrative Script The Good Neighbors: The Missing Fairy Mother Mother Myths, Mother Bodies Gender Fiction and Maternal Self-Sacrifice Notes Works Cited Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature Symbolic Matricide Gone Awry: On Absent and—Maybe Even Worse—Present Mothers in Horror Movies A Mother’s Love Norman’s Frustration Billy’s Rage Carrie’s Drama Ryan’s Gender Trouble A Mother’s Dilemma Notes Works Cited V Absent Mothers on the Big and Small Screen in the New Millennium Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role Single Fathers and the Entertainment Arena Looking for Mother Conclusion Notes Works Cited Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film Twentieth-Century Animated Films - Fathers and Daughters Changing Definitions of Fatherhood Twenty-First Century Films - Fathers and Sons The Postfeminist Widower Becomes Heroic Father Outcompeting Mother The Mothering Father and Onscreen Violence A World Without Mothers - Fathers Teaching Fathers Conclusion - What Is a Family?Notes Works Cited

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Absent Mothers in Online Media
The question that appears to be discussed most online is why mothers are absent, and in particular why they are absent in the output of the Disney corporation (see, for example, Mommy Naya 2009, Mullins 2014, Amidi 2014, Blevins 2015, Morris n. d.). A very popular theory, which resurfaced again...
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Theorizing the Absent Mother
The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother Marilyn Francus Western literary history is populated with dead, absent, and missing mothers—and with mothers in the process of marginalization even if they are alive and at home.1 Odysseus learns that his mother Anticlea is dead when...
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The Absent Mother as Protector and Advisor
Saintly Protection: The Postmortem ‘Mothers’ of Medieval Hagiography Mary Beth Long The ubiquity of the Virgin Mary in English medieval religious culture would seem to suggest a constant presence or awareness of mothers in its literature.1 No medieval church seems complete without an...
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Shakespeare’s Absent Mothers Revisited
‘Born in a tempest when my mother died’: Shakespeare’s Motherless Daughters Jess Hamlet The subject of mothers in Shakespeare’s plays received a good deal of attention in the 1980s and early 1990s. Most of this scholarship falls into one of two columns: Freudian psychoanalysis of...
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The Absent Mother as Expendable, or a Threat
A Side of Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series Heather Brown-Hudson How inextricably tied to the family paradigm in our cultural imagination is the figure of the mother? I argue that it is not only linked but implicit. Even so, a missing, absent,...
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Absent Mothers on the Big and Small Screen in the New Millennium
Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role Rebecca Feasey Popular and professional ‘listicles’ routinely introduce us to ‘best’ and ‘most loved’ maternal figures on the small screen, those who authors either wanted to be or...
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Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role
Rebecca Feasey Popular and professional ‘listicles’ routinely introduce us to ‘best’ and ‘most loved’ maternal figures on the small screen, those who authors either wanted to be or wished that they had been raised by, including Donna Stone (The Donna Reed Show 1958-1966), Marion...
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New Cultural Geography and its ‘dead geographies’
‘New Cultural Geography’ emerged during the 1980s as a prominent approach to geographic research. During 1980s, a range of (largely UK-based) cultural geographers became interested in the insights of the ‘Cultural Turn’ (see Box 1.1) and, with that, Cultural Studies (Jackson 1989) and the work...
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Mothers in Scholarly Research - Present and Absent
Many critics have pointed out that ‘maternal thinking and practice [are] grounded in specific historical and cultural realities’ (Scheper-Hughes 1993, 356); mothering and motherhood, as separate from the biological experience of giving birth, are cultural constructions responding to people’s lived...
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Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales
Katarina Labudova Slovak and Romani Folk Tales Slovak and Romani folk tales (and folk songs) obsessively return to motifs of dying and dead mothers, absent mothers replaced by stepmothers who make trouble for the orphaned children, and the starvation, cruelty and injustice that these children...
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