Publications

Authors:

Cordiano, Alessandra

Title:

Archetypes and Family Models

Year:

2016

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Fables of the Law. Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

Publisher:

De Gruyter

ISBN:

978-3-11-049472-3

Page numbers:

259-274

Keyword:

family law, stepparent, adoption, parental responsibility

Short description of contents:

The work aims to analyse the theme of the stepmothers, as they are traditionally portrayed in classic fairy tales: fairy tales often delineate caricatures and stereotypes; other times, instead, on the allegorical plane they propose archetypal figures, such as those in parental roles and, particularly, in the clear-cut opposition between mothers and stepmothers. This opposition of roles, which metaphorically opposes biological mother and social mother, is based in the supremacy of biological derivation and finds in consanguinity the presupposition of the bond. This feature is not translated only into the social representation of the phenomenon, but also extends to the use of more or less connoted language and, furthermore, it is found in different regulations and legal systems: in contemporary extended families, the two female figures coexist, perpetuating, in archetypal thought, the opposition of roles, of good and evil, in ways that do not occur with the paternal line, making it more difficult to delimit the confines of the role, also from the legal point of view.

Product ID:

93619

Handle IRIS:

11562/950527

Last Modified:

March 28, 2023

Bibliographic citation:

Cordiano, Alessandra, Archetypes and Family Models Fables of the Law. Fairy Tales in a Legal Context , De Gruyter , 2016 , pp. 259-274

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