![]() ![]() She does this partly to distract herself from her fear of flying, which she associates with her fear of being free of male company, a kind of unconscious Stockholm syndrome prevalent among the women of her time. ![]() Joined by her husband, Bennett, who is also a psychologist, and more than one hundred others, she reflects humorously on the insularity of her professional network. ![]() The event is the first to convene in the city since the end of the Nazi regime. Fear of Flying begins on a plane, as Wing travels to Vienna, at the time, part of Germany, to a convention of psychoanalysts. For its focus on a variety of marginal identities and their interactions, the novel became particularly popular among feminist and intersectional audiences. Along the way, Wing finds that her sexual fantasies are entangled with the systemic oppression of women and female sexuality, as well as her ambitions in academia and literature. Twice married, Wing travels with her husband to Vienna, where she carries on an affair with another man. Fear of Flying is told from the perspective of Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a Jewish journalist and accomplished erotic poet from New York City. American poet and novelist Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973) was a literary catalyst of the second-wave feminist movement, which focused on previously marginalized issues in women’s rights including sexuality, reproductive autonomy, and subtle forms of inequality that are encoded rather than explicit. ![]()
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