"All imperfect things": motherhood and the aesthetics of ambivalence in The piano -- Black mother/white daughter : surrogacy and resistance in Friends -- "Let's moider mother" : Heavenly creatures and the politics of delusion -- "Something better left alone" : interrogating the mother in Dolores Claiborne -- "To Nantucket by the light of the moon" : recovering Woolf in Losing Chase -- "'Tis a book of the dead" : the maternal spectre in The others -- "Not another mama story!" : maternal sacrifice in Step mom -- True thing and Pieces of april
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