Essays about: "The Edible Woman"
Found 4 essays containing the words The Edible Woman.
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1. The Destructive Performance - A Feminist Reading of Three Texts Written by Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” are three literary texts in which the three protagonists seem to play a role which makes them miserable and suicidal. This essay explores what elements that are involved in making these women unhappy and self-destructive. READ MORE
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2. Women, Animals and Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Approach to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Michel Faber's Under the Skin
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : In this thesis, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Michel Faber’s Under the Skin are analysed from the perspective of feminist-vegetarian critical theory. Both texts deal with the idea of feeling like or being meat, but approach this idea from different angles. READ MORE
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3. REVELLING IN FOOD: An Ecofeminist Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Margaret Atwood’s debut novel The Edible Woman follows protagonist Marian MacAlpin’s life over the span of a few months, through her engagement to, and subsequent breakup from, Peter Wollander. There are references to food on almost every page, and the relationship between women and food in particular has been extensively analysed by feminist critics of the novel. READ MORE
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4. "I was my own woman" - Breakdown and Recovery in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : During the 1950’s and 1960’s an unexplainable phenomenon arose amongst middle class women in North America. Women in the suburbs experienced a feeling of emptiness even though they believed they had everything they could ever ask for in life. READ MORE