Post-Pharma Pedagogies: An Intertextual Feminist Approach to Teaching Depression in The Bell Jar.

The author describes her approach to teaching depression in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" to college students from a feminist science studies perspective. She explains the benefits of exploring the narrative of recovery by pairing the novel with "American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in t...

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Published in:	Women's Studies Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 207 - 223
Main Author:	Brown, Sarah
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr/May2019
Subjects:	Bell Jar, The (Book : Plath) Mental depression in literature Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963 Feminist literary criticism American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the 20th Century (Book) Food in literature Women's studies
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Summary:	The author describes her approach to teaching depression in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" to college students from a feminist science studies perspective. She explains the benefits of exploring the narrative of recovery by pairing the novel with "American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century," by Laura Hirshbein. She also discusses the significance of the prevalence of the metaphor of food in "The Bell Jar."