Word: dearest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consuming obsession with self, so-called emancipated women writers increasingly have headed for their typewriters to spew forth tortuous, long-winded, accounts of their traumatized childhoods. Works belonging to this "coming to terms with my past" genre--Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Christine Crawford's Mommie Dearest, and Nancy Friday's My Mother/Myself, are ghastly examples--are more motivated by bitterness than any sense of liberation as they grovel self-indulgently in memory's sludge and heap almost exclusive blame on mother for singlehandedly engineering their adult misfortunes...
...Broca's Brain, Sagan (10) 10. Mommie Dearest, Crawford
...Mommie Dearest, Crawford...
...Mommie Dearest, Crawford (7) 10. How to Get Everything You Want
...Mommie Dearest, Crawford...