Review of Michelle Kinsey-Clinton’s ‘The Willing Domesticity of Sylvia Plath: A Rebuttal of the Feminist Label’ Critic Michelle Kinsey-Clinton makes claims and offers opinion that Sylvia Plath was not in fact a feminist as many heralded her, but that instead she was content with her domestic role as mother and wife as long as she was able to continue her writing and her companion was no less than equal to her: ‘The one provision...…showed first 75 words of 1086 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1086 total…housewife. Sylvia Plath was everything and nothing. A book of complicated thoughts and a long list of contradictions. While she was content at being a loving housewife and mother, she also refused to have a partner that could not compliment her intelligence and neither would they prevent her from what she once described as ‘like water or bread...(poetry) is absolutely essential to me. I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem’.