scholarly journals Sylvia Plath and the Containment of Women's Domestic Identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Catherine Slater
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Home Pages ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Magazine Articles

Within the unstable sphere of 1950s Cold War political tensions, American women became the 'bastion of safety in an insecure world' (Tyler May 2008: p.9). For politicians such as Richard Nixon, women's loyalty to the home served as a commitment to America, negotiating a settlement which secured women within the confinements of domestic duties. This ideal, advertised through compelling magazine articles, manipulatively enabled a universal identity for women based within the home. Pages packed with the latest consumer products and laced with 'smooth artificiality... cool glamour, and the apple-pie happy domesticity' (Bronfen 2004: p.115) birthed a rich propaganda for domestic containment. Examining the political climate of Cold War America through the lens of domestic containment, this article argues that American poet Sylvia Plath tackled the illusions of consumerism to fuel her writing, challenging outright gender inequality which defined the nation.Using Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique alongside genuine articles from the era, this article assesses the ideological conflict of the 1950s domesticated woman against Plath's personal battle between writing and domestic life. Through her raw depictions of realism in literature and intense poetry, it becomes impossible to 'contain' Plath, not only within the domestic sphere, but in her own writing.

Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-188
Author(s):  
Sebastián Hurtado-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Johnson Administration ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes the efforts by the United States and Eduardo Frei to prevent Salvador Allende from attaining the presidency. The Nixon administration, after choosing not to involve itself in the 1970 presidential race to the extent the Johnson administration had in the 1964 election, reacted with great alacrity to Allende's victory in the popular election. Richard Nixon himself instructed CIA director Richard Helms to conduct covert operations in Chile, behind Ambassador Korry's back. In addition, Chilean politicians, particularly Christian Democrats of the Frei line, tried or at least explored ways of averting an Allende victory and sought for that purpose the support of the U.S. embassy in Santiago. Though many of the documents that tell this part of the story have been available to researchers since at least the early 2000s, only one scholarly work has treated these attempts by Chilean politicians, especially Eduardo Frei, in depth. The tendency of scholars of U.S. foreign relations during the Cold War to assume rather uncritically that the only decisions that mattered were taken in Washington has narrowed the perspectives from which the history of Cold War Chilean politics has been studied and interpreted.

The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Clues to an Old Mystery Using 21st Century Medical Science

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Documented Information ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Magazine Articles

This study examines all documented information regarding the final days and death of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), in an attempt to determine the most likely cause of death of the American poet, short story writer, and literary critic. Information was gathered from letters, newspaper accounts, and magazine articles written during the period after Poe's death, and also from biographies and medical journal articles written up until the present. A chronology of Poe's final days was constructed, and this was used to form a differential diagnosis of possible causes of death. Death theories over the last 160 years were analyzed using this information. This analysis, along with a review of Poe's past medical history, would seem to support an alcohol-related cause of death.

scholarly journals Radical Voices in Indian English Poetry: A Study of the Poetry of Kamala Das

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Dr. Karabi Goswami
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Anne Sexton ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Creative Genius ◽  
American Poet

The creative genius of Kamala Das, one of the most prominent voices of protest in Indian English Literature is often compared to the American poet Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton as both of them used the confessional mode of writing in their poetry. Kamala Das, born in 1934 in Thrissur district of kerela emerged as a distinctive poetic voice with the publication of the first volume of her poetry Summer in Calcutta. In her poems Kamala Das has always raised a voice against the conventionalized figure of a woman, seeking a more dignified and honourable position for woman as an entity. In fact her poetry addresses the most critical issue in the contemporary society-the need to awaken the women. Her poetry collections include- Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendents (1967), The Old Playhouse and Other poems (1973), Tonight, This Savage Rite (1979), The Collected Poems (1984). My Story published in 1976 is her autobiography

scholarly journals Mulheres na diplomacia brasileira / Women in brazilian diplomacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Soares Balestero
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Media ◽  
America Latina

Resumo: A participação de mulheres na política externa e nos espaços de decisão transnacionais precisa ser discutida, visto que, em um mundo no qual as injustiças e lutas por igualdade não se restringem apenas ao âmbito doméstico, a participação paritária e representativa das mulheres nos espaços internacionais é uma exigência para o avanço da promoção da igualdade de gênero e da quebra da estrutura patriarcal dominante que reproduz as relações de dominação. Assim, a presente pesquisa tentará contextualizar essas novas ideias em um cenário que, acredita-se, esteja se tornando mais favorável à aceitação e ascensão femininas nos meios ligados às relações internacionais, especialmente na América Latina, tendo como reflexo o aumento do acesso de mulheres às carreiras e áreas predominantemente masculinas. A proposta é analisar teoricamente uma política que traduza as ideias de democracia e inclusão voltadas para o acesso e preservação da ascensão feminina no campo político internacional, trazendo alguns questionamentos e complexidades da própria luta pelo poder em paridade à figura masculina. Abstract: The participation of women in foreign policy and in transnational decision-making spaces needs to be discussed, since, in a world in which injustices and struggles for equality are not restricted to the domestic sphere, women's equal and representative participation in international spaces is a demand for the advancement of the promotion of gender equality and the breaking of the dominant patriarchal structure that reproduces the relations of domination. Thus, the present research will attempt to contextualize these new ideas in a scenario that is believed to be becoming more favorable to women's acceptance and ascension in the media related to international relations, especially in Latin America, reflecting the increase in women's access careers and predominantly male areas. The proposal is to analyze theoretically a policy that translates the ideas of democracy and inclusion aimed at accessing and preserving the feminine ascent in the international political field, bringing some questions and complexities of the struggle for power in parity to the male figure.

scholarly journals The Bell Jar_ Shattered: Exploration of creativity through a psychiatric lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (S) ◽  
Author(s):  
Romesa Qaiser Khan ◽  
Asnia Latif ◽  
Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Average Person ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Aristotle’s theory of melancholia hypothesized for the first time that individuals who possess any form of genius are prone to depression more than the average person. The list of examples supplementing Aristotle’s theory is by no means exhaustive. Extensive medical research has also been done to establish this connection. We will briefly review our understanding of the relationship between creativity and mental illness. We will discuss the insights provided by the life and works of American poet, novelist and short story writer Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath extensively chronicled her struggle with lifelong depression in her semi-autobiographical novel 'The Bell Jar'.

Trends in the Production of Knowledge about the Middle East within and across Disciplines: A Survey of PhD Dissertations, 2000–2010

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bier
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic Climate ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter surveys topical, methodological, and geographic trends in the production of knowledge about the Middle East in doctoral dissertations written over the decade 2000–2010. It assesses the extent to which the post-9/11 political and academic climate influenced knowledge production about the Middle East. It argues that while scholarship on the Middle East has undoubtedly been both constrained and inspired by geopolitics and the various political, popular, and media responses to 9/11, the relationship between the two is not necessarily coherent, unilinear, or predictable. Trends in Middle East studies (MES) are the product of changes in political climate, methodological currents within disciplines (themselves related to shifts in the post-Cold War geopolitical order), the peculiarities and engagements of MES as a distinct disciplinel, and the relationship between area studies and wider disciplinary norms, organizations, and institutions.

20. Global environment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Eckersley
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Environment Policy ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the evolution of U.S. foreign policy on environmental issues over four decades, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. It first considers U.S. environmental multilateralism and foreign environment policy before explaining how the United States, despite being widely regarded as an environmental leader during the Cold War period, has increasingly become an environmental laggard in the post-Cold War period. The chapter attributes the decline in U.S. leadership to the country’s new status as the sole superpower, the more challenging character of the new generation of global environmental problems that emerged in the late 1980s, the structure of the U.S. economy and political system, and key features of U.S. grand strategy.

scholarly journals Crises of Commemoration: Cold War, Decolonization and the Bungled 1954 D-Day Commemoration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W M Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
International Diplomacy ◽  
War Memories ◽  
European Defence Community

Abstract— In 1954, international dignitaries and veterans joined the commemoration of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, though not everything went according to plan. For the French organizers, chief among them Gaullist deputy Raymond Triboulet, the event was intended to communicate a unifying, pro-Allied message amid a turbulent political climate. By June 1954, France had recently suffered a decisive defeat at Dien Bien Phu and was politically gripped by the divisive prospect of a European Defence Community. In debates over these crises, war memories surfaced and France’s experience of the Occupation and Liberation enflamed passions. For many who attended the Normandy ceremony in 1954, the missteps of organizers created tension and upset, endangering Allied participation in the Paris Liberation ceremonies to follow. This moment of disjuncture illuminates how currents of memory, international diplomacy, decolonization and broader Cold War tensions all intersected and influenced each other on the Normandy beaches.

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