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Magnet, Shoshana. "Are You My Mother?: Understanding Feminist Therapy with Alison Bechdel." Women & Therapy 40. (2017): 207–27. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2016.1213607
BibTeX citation key: Magnet2017
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Keywords: "Are You My Mother?", Autobiography, Bechdel. Alison, Psychoanalysis, USA
Creators: Magnet
Collection: Women & Therapy
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Abstract
This article considers the ways that people might engage with therapeutic processes on the long road to self-actualization. It is also a call for those who can, to think of this labor as a form of activism. I ask that we reflect on some of the possible routes to achieving what might loosely be termed forms of affective knowledge. As part of this call, I first examine theories around graphic fiction, therapy, and possible connections between these fields. I then investigate a text that exemplifies the liberatory potential of therapy: Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother? and its possibilities for explaining the therapeutic process.
  
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