Gender in Modernism

by Scott, Bonnie Kime

• ISBN13: 9780252074189
• ISBN10: 0252074181
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-14
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Gender in Modernism, conceived as a sequel to the now-classic volumeThe Gender of Modernism, selects the best from the fifteen years of feminist literary and modernist scholarship that has appeared since the original's publication. Its fresh and diverse texts examine new themes and reflect today's broader, more inclusive understanding of modernism. The collection's modernist works have been grouped into twenty-one thematic sections, with theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in new directions. The selections enhance our understanding of the complex intersections of gender with a large array of social identifications, including global location, ideas of race, passing, the queering of sexualities, medicine, and experiences of trauma and war. It sees continental modernism in a different light, and moves on to colonial and postcolonial sites. The collection also considers editors, journalists and the creators of less-studied genres of modernism, including writers on the left, suffragists, authors of manifestos, mediums, authors dismissed as sentimental, artists, dancers, dramatists, and filmmakers.Gender in Modernismwill quickly move from resource to springboard, furthering modernist study well into the twenty-first century. Contributors include Tuzyline Jita Allan, Ann Ardis, Nancy Berke, Julia Briggs, Pamela L. Caughie, Mary Chapman, Suzanne Clark, Patrick Collier, Diane F. Gillespie, Barbara Green, Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Suzette A. Henke, Katherine Kelly, Colleen Lamos, Bette London, Janet Lyon, Jayne Marek, Sonita Sarker, Carol Shloss, Susan Squier, Claire Tylee, and Gay Wachman.

Table of Contents

Introduction : a retro-prospective on gender in modernism

Modernist/feminist activism

Suffrage and spectacle

Manifestoes from the sex war

Radical moderns : American women poets on the left

Issues of production and reception

Sentimental modernism

Debating feminism, modernism, and socialism : Beatrice Hastings's voices in The New Age

Journalism meets modernism

Women editors and modernist sensibilities

Hope M

Diverse identities and geographies

Lesbian political history

Queer conjunctions in modernism

Modernism, gender, and passing

Modernism, gender, and Africa

Race, nation, and modernity : the anti-colonial consciousness of modernism

War, technology, and traumas of modernity

War, modernisms, and the feminized "other"

Modernism, trauma, and narrative reformulation

Modernism and medicine

Mediumship, automatism, and modernist authorship

Arts and performances

Gender and collaboration in modern drama

Modernism, gender, and dance

The gender of modern/IST painting

Cineastes and modernists : writing on film in 1920s London

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