Performance and Subversion of “Femininity” in "The Journals of Sylvia Plath"
Performance and Subversion of “Femininity” in "The Journals of Sylvia Plath"

Summary/Abstract: "Sylvia Plath has long been hailed as a feminist writer of great significance, her suicide at the age of thirty being interpreted as a direct consequence of male dominance in a society that was preventing women from asserting their own identity, from making their voice heard. However, readings of Plath’s works that are set out to find there political sustenance are, in my opinion, doomed to failure. In her diary we see her oscillating between total acceptance and total refusal of traditional representations of the status of the woman."

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