ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|14 pages
Introduction
part II|96 pages
Modernism's [Em] Space
chapter 2|30 pages
The [Em] Space of Modernism and the Possibility of Flâneuserie
The Case of ViÑA Delmar and Her “Bad Girls”1
chapter 5|22 pages
The “Wife” and the “Genius”
Domesticating Modern Art in Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
chapter 6|10 pages
You Must Go Home Again
Duty, Love, and Work as Presented in Popular Magazines during World War II
part III|62 pages
Gendered Modernism FROM THE Margins
chapter 8|12 pages
Modernism or Modernismo?
Delmira Agustini and the Gendering of Turn-of-the-Century Spanish-American Poetry
part IV|107 pages
Gender and Modernist Arts
part V|95 pages
Gendered Crisscross
chapter 15|18 pages
“Civilization Is Based upon the Stability of Molars”
Dorothy Richardson and Imperialist Dentistry
chapter 17|16 pages
The Room as Laboratory
The Gender of Science and Literature in Modernist Polemics
chapter 18|22 pages
Gendered Restraints
Heart of Darkness AND THE Anorexic Logic of Literary Modernism*
