The Mother-Daughter Puzzle: A New Generational Understanding of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

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  • Gillian M.E. Alban

Author Biography

Gillian M.E. Alban

Dr. Gillian M. E. Alban is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey; she previously worked at Bosphorus and Doğuş Universities. Her research focuses on women writers from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as well as on Shakespeare. Her published books are Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and in Mythology (Lexington 2003), and the recent The Medusa Gaze in Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Petrifying, Maternal and Redemptive (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017). These works are the fruit of her investigation into the psyche and status of women as seen in literature, which she has developed through historical, mythic and archetypal perspectives, deconstructing feminist approaches where they debilitate, and returning a powerful female gaze

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Alban, G. M. (2018). The Mother-Daughter Puzzle: A New Generational Understanding of the Mother-Daughter Relationship. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 9(2). Retrieved from https://jarm3.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/view/40533

Issue

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 9, No 2 (2018)

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Book Reviews

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