Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth’s Fiction
Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth’s Fiction
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Description
A new, post-#MeToo critical approach to reading and recuperating the gendered representations of women in a selection of Roth's novels.
Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth's Fiction intervenes in the current critical conversation about Philip Roth and his depictions of women. Some critics have determined that Roth portrays women in a misogynistic manner. However, these same critics have ignored women who are sexually empowered or rebellious in a few of his most recognizable novels. With this study, Hirth argues that despite Roth's evident male gaze towards the women he creates for the page, these women reorient the sexualized power dynamic in the relationships in which they participate and thereby problematize the assumption that Roth is a sexist author.
Each chapter details some of Roth's most dynamic female characters from his most recognizable novels at different periods of his literary career, including Goodbye Columbus, The Dying Animal, Sabbath's Theater, and Indignation, and demonstrates how Roth crafts complex women. This analysis illuminates how Roth's women operate against the social constraints that limit their power and potential. In short, the in-depth analysis of a few of Roth's characters disproves the overly generalized claims that Roth cannot write women and advocates for a reading that illustrates how he not only creates empowered women but can also inspire them.
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Table of Contents
2. Goodbye, Columbus (1959): Brenda Patimkin's Nascent Autonomy
3. The Dying Animal (2001): Consuela Castillo's Sexual Liberation
4. Sabbath's Theater (1995): Drenka Balich's Unquenchable Desire
5. Indignation (2008): Olivia Hutton's (Un)Repressed Desire
6. A Future for Roth and Feminism?
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Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9798765123805 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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