Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television The Persephone
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
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10.1057/9781137511379 - Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television, Alison Horbury
The Persephone Complex Alison Horbury University of Melbourne, Australia
10.1057/9781137511379 - Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television, Alison Horbury
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Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television
© Alison Horbury 2015
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