Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Entertaining a woman all night in an undergraduate's room is no more legal or illegal than entertaining her half the night...
...morals laws which University lawyers had cited to support hours restrictions prohibit the operator of a "lodging house" from "knowingly" permitting a woman to be there "for the purpose of unlawfully having sexual intercourse...
...absurdity of assuming that since Sylvia Plath is a woman, her dislocation has no relation to reality while Wilfred Owen's is purely a response to reality goes unnoticed...
Beneath this is Their unfailing tendency to see Woman lurking behind every individual and to define Woman exclusively as a sexual being. They don't like women to deviate from preconception, and when women do threaten to leap the boundaries their achievements are either discounted or attributed to some mysterious quality of femininity. At one point Mrs. Ellmann quotes an article on Sylvia Plath...
Owen that 'all a poet can do today is to warn.' But being a woman, her warning is more shrill, penetrating, visionary than Owen's. Owen's came out of the particular circumstances of the trenches, and there is nothing to make us think that if he had not been on the Western Front ... he would not have warned anyone about anything at all. He would have been a nice chap and a quiet poet. With Sylvia Plath, her femininity is that her hysteria comes completely out of herself...