Full Description
Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's contributions to modernist culture, and explore how that culture was affected by gender issues. The essays provide a wealth of insights into literature, painting, architecture, design, anthropology, sociology, religion, science, popular culture, music, issues of race and ethnicity, and the influence of 20th-century women and sexual politics.
Contents
Introduction, The Case for Cultural/Gender/Modernist Studies, Lisa Rado * Modernism's [EM] Space The [em] Space of Modernism and the Possibility of Flaneuserie : The Case of Vina Delmar and Her Bad Girls, Kakie Urch * The Art (ifice) of Striptease: Gypsy Rose Lee and the Masquerade of Nudity, Jennifer Blessing * Modernist Literature and Popular Spiritualism, Helen Sword * The 'Wife' and the 'Genius': Domesticating Modern Art in Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Margot Norris * You Must Go Home Again: Duty, Love, and Work as Presented in Popular Magazines During World War II, Susan Alexander and Allison Greenberg * Gendered Modernism From The Margins Madge Tennent: Contested Images from Paradise, Bonnie Kelm * Modernism or Modernismo? Delmira Agustini and the Gendering of Turn-of-the-Century Spanish American Poetry, Patricia Varas * The Face and Voice of Blackness, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gender and Modernist Arts Engendering a Scandal: The Cubist House and the Private space of Modernity, Elizabeth Kahn * Whitewash, Ripolin, Shop-Girls, and Matiere: Modernist Design and Gender, Nigel Whitely * Gender Still Life: Paintings of Still Life in the Machine Age, Barbara Zabel * Dancing Free: Women's Movements in Early Modern Dance, Dee A. Reynolds Gendered Criss-Cross Modernism, Primitivism, and Matriarchy, Lisa Rado * Civilization is Based upon the Stability of Molars: Dorothy Richardson and Imperialist Dentistry, Kristen Bluemel * Dance Little Lady: Poets, Flappers, and The Gendering of Jazz, David Chinitz * The Room as Laboratory: The Gender of Science and Literature in Modernist Polemics, Caroline Webb * Gendered Restraints: Heart of Darkness and the Anorexic Logic of Literary Modernism, Leslie Heywood * Name and Subject Index
