Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television The Persephone Complex – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

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.