1998
DOI: 10.1353/lm.1998.0011
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Female Trouble: Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, and Alcoholism

Abstract: "Female Trouble: Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, and Alcoholism" brings together Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter and their fiction over a common problem: their alcoholism and the "female trouble" they encountered in a culture that asked them, as heterosexual women, to subordinate their bodies, desires, and career aspirations to their male partners. The women alcoholics---authors and characters---are scrutinized and punished as they transgress culturally determined roles and beh… Show more

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