SOURCE: "Balancing the Hurts and the Needs: Olsen's 'I Stand Here Here Ironing,'" in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2, March, 1994, pp. 78-86.
In the following essay, Kloss examines the daughter's emotional deprivation in "I Stand Here Ironing."
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