num_pages: 226
description: Looks at the continuing failure of American writers to portray women as independent or even adequate human beings, citing especially the works of Roth, Updike, Oakes, and Plath
language: English
title: The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties
titlecomplete: The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties
ratings_count: 2
publisher: University of Illinois Press