Blood Relations: Feminist Theory Meets the Uncanny Alien Bug Mother

LYNDA ZWINGER

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00886.x

Blood Relations: Feminist Theory Meets the Uncanny Alien Bug Mother

LYNDA ZWINGER

English

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This essay addresses the troubling and uncanny figure of Mother infeminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, literary criticism, and real life. Readings of feminist literary criticism and the films Alien and Aliens explore the Uminality of Mother and the consequences for feminist thought and practice of the persistent narrative modes (the sentimental and the gothic) locatable in ail of these discourses on of Motherhood. 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	74-90
Number of pages	17
Journal	Hypatia
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00886.x
State	Published - May 1992

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Philosophy

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