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