A body of one's own: Representations of women's bodies in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Anne Sexton, and breaking free of the gendering patriarchy

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A body of one's own: Representations of women's bodies in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Anne Sexton, and breaking free of the gendering patriarchy

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Waxing, shaving, plucking, eye-brow tinting, hair dying, makeup, diets, plastic surgery – if all women were instantaneously in love with their natural bodies, millions of people would be out of work. For centuries, women’s bodies have been sites of patriarchal control: are they too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet, too modest, too revealing, too innocent, too experienced? The list of dichotomous expectations goes on for miles, but what remains most important is that women act like women, lo...

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Masters

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2019

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Rowell, Dadon

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13562

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feminist / feminism / poetry / Emily Dickinson / Anne Sexton / American Poetry / creative writing / Foucault / gender / bodies / female body / breast / hand / mouth / lips / gender binary / patriarchy / confessional / Adrienne Rich / Sylvia Plath / female poets / women / Susan Bordo / Sandra Bartky / Iris Young / control / rebelling / femininity / commodification / fragmentation / oppression / creative component / gender issues / prescribed gender

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