Her best thing?, autonomy versus dependence in the roles of mother and daughter

This thesis explores various aspects of the mother-daughter relationship from a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective. Toni Monison's Beloved and Marilynne Robinson's housekeeping offer two distinct interpretations of the dynamics of mother-daughter interactions. Chapter Two, which deals...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hopkins, Elizabeth
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1237