Quite the opposite of a feminist
Phyllis McGinley, Betty Friedan and discourses of gender in mid-century American culture
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4348237 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jo Gill (0000-0001-5272-8624, Schlumberger (Ireland), autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2013 |
| Volumen | 22 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 422-439 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2012.726127 |
| OpenAlex | W2027914302 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 11 |
This article examines the relationship between feminist and anti-feminist discourses in the period between World War II and the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963). It takes as its primary focus the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘housewife poet’ and self-proclaimed anti-feminist, Phyllis McGinley. McGinley was a successful poet who has disappeared from the record since the publication in 1964 of Sixpence in her Shoe—her best-selling retort to The Feminine Mystique. Her example is important because it gives voice to the much-maligned suburban housewife and offers a spirited alternative to Friedan's reading of white, middle-class domesticity as always and inevitably oppressive. The article offers a close reading of McGinley's work and situates it in relation to its historical and cultural contexts (specifically the highly charged domain of suburban domesticity) and to its wider readership. It compares her anti-feminism with that of other anti-feminist writers of the period, thereby illuminating the tensions and contradictions in contemporary debates
Aesthetics · Art · Audience measurement · Close reading · Feminism · Housewife · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
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| Intervalo de citas | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
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