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
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Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr/May2019
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