114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1950s, America was in the grip of Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism. Communism and ‘gender maladjustment’ were twin threats to the social ideals of family and security. Yet, previous readings of Plath and her heroine have ignored much of the social context of this era.
Reflecting on The Bell Jar (first published in 1991) acknowledges this repressive post-war regime of social hygiene. Pat... Read more
Introduction: Cold War Paranoia – Theirs and Ours 1. Coming Apart in the Atomic Age 2. The Motherly Breath of the Suburbs 3. ‘You Don’t Blame Me for Hating My Mother, Do You?’ 4. ‘I Am Not Now a Homosexual and I Have Never Been a Homosexual.’
Biography
Pat Macpherson taught English at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia for 13 years and received her MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
