Gender and Sexuality in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.17.2.179-198Palavras-chave:
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This paper analyses the manner in which Sylvia Plath's poems portray gender relations and, more specifically, how the construction of gender based on hierarchy and inequality becomes an obstacle to harmonious relationships between people. In the poems analyzed, the ideals of love and intimacy are always driven away because of gender inequality that still today continues to serve as the basis to interpersonal relations. In this context, Plath's poetry depicts sexuality as a central tool in the perpetuation of male dominance and female submission, a fact that makes the relations between men and women even more difficult.
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