Summary for Plath Striptease article from Hannah's group:

"This particular journal article deals with the confessional aspects of the poetry of Sylvia Plath, and how the figuratively naked aspects of her poetry differ from her male contemporaries. Because historically fiction - and society - have celebrated the male naked form as a liberating symbol, and have portrayed the woman's body as vulnerable to attack and inviting to rape, a woman finds no freedom in her exposed form. The article posits the idea that because of these conceptions, which Sylvia Plath could not avoid when writing as a woman among men, she wrote as though her inherent female bodily qualities inhibited her artistry and are insufficient to identify herself as a respectable poet. She thus had to write as a man would to express her conflict as a poet possessing a woman's body, evensofar as to illustrate her own skewed ability to rape, so as to avoid being a representation of her faulty sex. As a female confessional poet, rather than as a man, she wrote as though the frustrating reality that was her femininity was paradoxically something to overcome and also an ultimately unavoidable situation as a victim, creatd by a language and culture she wrote in."