Opinion
The antiheroines taking over our screens
Mummy is going away for a while. The antiheroine of the moment, in films such as The Lost Daughter and Scenes From a Marriage commits the mother’s ultimate sin: abandoning her children.
Amanda Hess and Liana FinckThere are so many ways to do motherhood wrong, or so a mother is told. She can be overbearing or remote. She can smother or neglect.
She can mother in such a specifically bad way that she is assigned a bad-mum archetype: stage mother, refrigerator mother, “cool mum.”
Loading...
Subscribe to gift this article
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
Introducing your Newsfeed
Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
Find out moreRead More
Latest In Arts & Culture
Fetching latest articles