“I Take Everything Back That I Said”: Ambivalence and Motherhood in Mildred Pierce
This article discusses motherhood in James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce (1941). It argues that academic criticism so far has neglected the important contribution Cain’s text makes to debates concerning motherhood norms in the post-Depression years. The article takes as its central concern the fraught r...
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| Language: | English |
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CBS Open Journals
2019-09-01
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| Series: | American Studies in Scandinavia |
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| Online Access: | https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5977 |