Desiring Daughters
Screen, Summer 1993, v. 34, no. 2, pp. 109-123
This article explores mother-daughter relationships in various video works. A voluminous body of women's narratives, in this instance considered from within feminist video production, have given voice over the past two decades to the story of daughters uncomfortably bound to the psychic, symbolic, and historical legacy of mothers.
ITEM 1993.016 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Influences of My Mother – Sara Diamond
Measures of Distance – Mona Hatoum
Spring Showing:Emergence – Jill Geiger
Casting Off – Jane Northey
Ritual of a Wedding Dress – Wendy Walker
My Mother is a Dangerous Woman – b.h. Yael