“On ne peut rien contre une fille qui rêve”: Teenage Pregnancy as Maternal Empowerment or Maternal Entrapment in '17 Filles'

17 Filles (2011), the first feature film of French directing sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, draws inspiration from a 2008 incident in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in which 18 high-school girls committed to a “pregnancy pact”, with the aim of conceiving almost simultaneously. The Coulins transpose...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Julie Rodgers, Ciara Gorman
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Liverpool University Press 2023-06-01
Series:Modern Languages Open
Online Access:https://account.modernlanguagesopen.org/index.php/up-j-mlo/article/view/456