Straight (White) Women Writing About Men Bonking?

2020 ◽  
pp. 446-458
Author(s):  
Mel Stanfill
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Women Writing

Sylvia Plath and White Ignorance

Janus Head ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Miller ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
White Woman ◽  
White Women ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
White Ignorance

Sylvia Plath wrote in the midst of growing racial tensions in 1950s and 1960s America. Her work demonstrates ambivalence towards her role as a middle-class white woman. In this paper, I examine the racial implications in Plath's color terms. I disagree with Renee Curry's reading in White Women Writing White that Plath only considers her whiteness insofar as it affects herself. Through a phenomenological study of how whiteness shifts meaning in this poem, I hope to show that Curry's negative estimation is only partly right. I suggest that embodiment is a problem for Plath in general, and this contributes to her inability to fully examine other bodies.

WHITE WOMEN WRITING IN THE CONTACT ZONE

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (73) ◽  
pp. 249-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
White Women ◽  
Women Writing

Women Writing/Women Written: The Case of Oriental Women in English Colonial Fiction

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
Hager Ben Driss
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
White Women ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Women Writing

Women's contribution to the building of the british empire has become by now undeniable. Standing at different vantagepoints, English women articulated, supported, and even innovated the colonial discourse. Though highly masculine in its ideological core, the Empire is far from being exclusively male in its rhetorical voice. Feminist postcolonial critics have shown British women's important participation in colonialism. McClintock, for example, claims that “white women were not the hapless onlookers of empire but were ambiguously complicit both as colonizers, privileged and restricted, acted upon and acting” (6).

White women writing: two teachers asorang putehin complex borderlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma Fleet ◽  
Ros Kitson
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Women Writing

Factors Influencing Electrophysiologic Responsivity in Normal Adults

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-347
Author(s):  
Robert Goldstein ◽  
Benjamin RosenblÜt
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
White Light ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Inverse Relation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Electrodermal Responses ◽  
Normal Adults

Electrodermal and electroencephalic responsivity to sound and to light was studied in 96 normal-hearing adults in three separate sessions. The subjects were subdivided into equal groups of white men, white women, colored men, and colored women. A 1 000 cps pure tone was the conditioned stimulus in two sessions and white light was used in a third session. Heat was the unconditioned stimulus in all sessions. Previously, an inverse relation had been found in white men between the prominence of alpha rhythm in the EEG and the ease with which electrodermal responses could be elicited. This relation did not hold true for white women. The main purpose of the present study was to answer the following questions: (1) are the previous findings on white subjects applicable to colored subjects? (2) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive electrophysiologically on one day equally responsive (or unresponsive) on another day? and (3) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive to sound equally responsive (or unresponsive) to light? In general, each question was answered affirmatively. Other factors influencing responsivity were also studied.

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