Writing Mothers and Daughters

Writing Mothers and DaughtersThe psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the pre oedipal mother daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value to, the daughter's relationship to her mother. At the same time women writers engaged in the complex task of representing this highly conflictual relationship which had been largely absent in women's narrative until then. Although much criticism has been

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