The Modern Woman Revisited

by Chadwick, Whitney; Latimer, Tirza True

• ISBN13: 9780813532929
• ISBN10: 0813532922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
WHITNEY CHADWICK AND TIRIA TRUE LATIMER
PART ONE Imagining Modernity
1. BECOMING MODERN	3	(18)
Gender and Sexual Identity after World War	1	(20)
WHITNEY CHADWICK AND TIRIA TRUE LATIMER
2.GENDER, RACE, AND MISCEGENATION	21	(14)
African Americans in Jazz Age Paris
TYLER STOVALL
3. DECONSECRATING MODERNISM	35	(20)
Allegories of Regeneration in Brooks and Picasso
BRIDGET ELLIOTT
PART TWO Modern Modes
4. "NEVER ADMIT!"	55	(10)
Colette and the Freedom of Paradox
ISABELLE DE COURTIVRON
5. SAMSON AND DELILAH REVISITED	65	(30)
The Politics of Fashion in 1920's France
MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
6. PAINTING THE PERVERSE	95	(14)
Tamara de Lempicka and the Modern Woman Artist
PAULA BIRNBAUM
7. SONIA DELAUNAY'S SIMULTANEOUS FASHIONS AND THE MODERN WOMAN	109	(18)
TAG GRONBERG
PART THREE New Identities
8. LOOKING LIKE A LESBIAN	127	(18)
Portraiture and Sexual Identity in 1920's Paris
TIRZA TRUE LATIMER
9. DJUNA BARNES	145	(10)
Looking Like a Lesbian/Poet
CAROLYN ALLEN
10. SINGULAR PLURAL	155	(14)
Collaborative Self-Images in Claude Cahun's Aveux non avenus
JENNIFER SHAW
11. "SOMETHING HIDDEN, SECRET, AND ETERNAL"	169	(14)
Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall, and the Lesbian Image in The Forge
JOE LUCCHESI
PART FOUR Embodying the Modern
12. MODERN DANCERS AND AFRICAN AMAZONS	183	(16)
Augusta Savage's Sculptures of Women, 1929-1930
THERESA LEININGER-MILLER
13. LEE MILLER'S TWO BODIES	199	(24)
WHITNEY CHADWICK
14. "LE NUMÉRO BARBETTE"	223	(14)
Photography and the Politics of Embodiment in Interwar Paris
AMY LYFORD
APPENDIX: The Napoleonic Civil Code of 1804	237	(4)
Bibliography	241	(8)
Notes on Contributors	249	(2)
Index	251