Rogers, Hannah (2021) Patienthood and the Female Body in US Cold War Literature. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.89818) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:89818)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/01.02.89818 |
Abstract
This thesis examines portrayals of the female body in texts by Sylvia Plath, Erica Jong, Richard Yates, Toni Morrison, Ira Levin, Jack Finney and Thomas Pynchon. It approaches these depictions from both a literary studies and medical humanities perspective, exploring what they tell us about Cold War culture during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. It argues that these writers present female characters that occupy positions of patienthood. Through drawing on work across the medical humanities, literary studies, history and cultural studies, this thesis extends the use of the term patienthood to include medical and non-medical experience, drawing a connection between the treatment of the female body under a medical gaze and Cold War culture in the United States. It approaches the female body as a site upon which the ideological conflict of the Cold War was written, and, as such, argues that presentations of the female body in literature of the Cold War period are important in broadening understanding of Cold War culture in the United States.
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) |
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Thesis advisor: | Norman, Will |
Thesis advisor: | Bolaki, Stella |
DOI/Identification number: | 10.22024/UniKent/01.02.89818 |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature |
SWORD Depositor: | System Moodle |
Depositing User: | System Moodle |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2021 08:27 UTC |
Last Modified: | 25 Aug 2021 10:03 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/89818 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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