![]() And above all, living with these contradictions should not make them confused, angry, or worse, depressed. “Women should be virgins, but not prudes women should go to college, pursue a certain kind of career, and then give it up to get married. “The rules were clear, and the expectations sky-high,” Bren writes. On her last night at the Barbizon, she later wrote, she went up to the roof terrace, and “piece by piece I fed my wardrobe to the night wind.” At some point she must have realized the inevitability of female disappointment. “She was neither able to comply with the demands made on women nor bravely shirk them.” In her unbridled enthusiasm over the prospect of her New York month, she’d bought new clothes. ![]() A fellow Barbizon-dwelling guest editor in 1953 noted that “we were the first generation after the war and the last generation before the Pill.” Plath “keenly felt the contradictions of the 1950s,” Bren writes. ![]() ![]() No women get more notice from Bren than the fiercely competitive college girls invited to be guest editors each June at Mademoiselle - and none so much as Plath. ![]()
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