Feminist Critical Study on Contemporary Women’s Writing and Female Culture with Special Focus on Sylvia Plath’s Poems

Abstract

This article investigates the roles of women and men in society from an interdisciplinary point of view. The author discusses how it shapes social roles within diverse cultures, and defines women and men"s personal sense of identity in literary contexts. The literary criticism and cultural theories in women writing are analyzed. The author focuses on Sylvia Plath as a feminist poetess definitely and examines the reflections of female- culture tendencies in feminist criticism on Sylvia Plath"s poems. In author"s opinion, her works are valuable for their ability to reach contemporary reader, because of its concern with the real problems of contemporary dominant culture. In this age of gender conflicts, broken families, and economic inequities, Plath"s forthright language speaks loudly about the anger of being both betrayed and powerless. The effects of gender on participation in literary expression are explored. Finally, the paper concludes cultural anthropology and social history can offer a terminology of women"s cultural condition but feminist critics must use this concept in relation to what women actually write.