2015 | Book
Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television
The Persephone Complex
Author: Alison Horbury
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
2015 | Book
Author: Alison Horbury
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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.