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Blood Relations: Feminist Theory Meets the Uncanny Alien Bug Mother

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Lynda Zwinger
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Abstract

This essay addresses the troubling and uncanny figure of Mother in feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, literary criticism, and real life. Readings of feminist literary criticism and the films Alien and Aliens explore the liminality of Mother and the consequences for feminist thought and practice of the persistent narrative modes (the sentimental and the gothic) locatable in all of these discourses on/of Motherhood.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 74 - 90
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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