"Funny and Tender and Not a Desperate Woman:" Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and Therapeutic Laughter

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Published: Jul 1, 2013

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Andrea Krafft

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Vol. 6 (2013)
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Andrea Krafft

Andrea Krafft  is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at the University of Florida, where she is writing her dissertation about the intersections of the fantastic and the domestic in postwar American literature. She has presented on this research at both the 2013 Popular Culture Association national conference and the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Her current research interests include twentieth century American literature, speculative fiction, domesticity, humor writing, and advertising studies. Her essay "Appliance Reliance: Domestic Technologies and the Depersonalization of Housework in Postwar American Speculative Fiction" will appear in the forthcoming collection Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Domestic Relationships (Scarecrow Press).