![]() ![]() McCarthy is perhaps best known for her open treatment of what were considered taboo subjects of sexuality, from contraception to abortion to infidelity and sexual promiscuity, presenting both the comic overtones and the complex psychological and moral undertones to issues of female sexuality. ![]() A fiction writer, cultural critic, and political commentator, McCarthy is associated with the anti-Stalinist liberal magazine, Partisan Review, in the 1930s and 40s.įrom her early autobiographical writing, including Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957) and the collection of autobiographical sketches The Company She Keeps (1942), to her political satire of anarcho-pacifist movements of the 1940s in The Oasis (1949) and of fellow-traveling liberal intellectuals in the 1950s in The Groves of Academe (1952),to her best-selling mock- chronicle novel of a group of Vassar graduates of the class of 1933, The Group (1963), and her later political commentary on the war in Vietnam and the Watergate trials, Mary McCarthy looks at the changing political, cultural, and social scene with a critical eye. ![]() ![]() Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) is one of the leading American women intellectuals of the twentieth century who is known for her sharp wit and keen perception of the American intellectual landscape. ![]()
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