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__Gendering Modernism__ offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism. Focusing primarily on the connections between North American and European modernists, Maria Bucur explains why it is imperative that we consider the gender angles of modernism as a way to understand the legacies of the movement. She provides an overview of the scholarship on modernism and an analysis of how definitions of modernism have evolved with that scholarship. Interweaving vivid case studies from before the Great War to the interwar period - looking at individual modernists from Ibsen to Picasso, Hannah Höch to Josephine Baker - she covers various fields such as art, literature, theatre and film, whilst also demonstrating how modernism manifested itself in the major social-political and cultural shifts of the 20th century, including feminism, psychology, sexology, eugenics, nudism, anarchism, communism and fascism. This is a fresh and wide-ranging investigation of modernism which expands our definition of the movement, integrating gender analys
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maria Bucur
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Publishing
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350026247
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Philosophy