Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
As of late, Marxist-Feminist critics read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as an economic text in line with a second-wave feminist agenda. This thesis concedes in reading the novel as economic text, but it will argue that The Bell Jar discloses sentiments more characteristic of a third-wave feminist perspective. The novel discloses said sentiments by mimicking the poetics of 1950s advertisements and the rhetoric of Mademoiselle magazine articles. Both forms rely on descriptive tropes that mirror the ways companies sell products to women, which allows Plath to channel the voice of consumption as she comments on the deceptive molds set in place in for women. In conclusion, the novel unveils a defective careerist ideal of equal importance to the devalued domestic.
Publication Date
5-1-2015
Language
English
License
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Recommended Citation
Novoa, Alexandra, "DEVALUED DOMESTICITY AND COUNTERFEIT CAREERISM: A MARXIST-FEMINIST READING OF SYLVIA PLATH'S THE BELL JAR" (2015). 2015 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 10.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2015/10