Author : Rita FELSKI
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674036794
In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion.
Author : Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0252074181
Grouped into 21 thematic sections, this collection provides theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.
Author : Katharina von Ankum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520917606
Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images of femininity. Besides treating classic films such as Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the articles discuss other forms of mass culture, including the fashion industry and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's critical involvement in the construction of their own modernity illustrates the significance of the Weimar cultural experience and its relevance to contemporary gender, German, film, and cultural studies.
Author : Alexandra Staub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351719432
The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "modernity" has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives. In doing so, this volume presents theories and methods for understanding space and gender as they relate to the development of cities, urban space and individual building types (such as housing, work spaces or commercial spaces) in both the creation of and resistance to social transformations and modern global capitalism. The book contains a diverse range of case studies from the US, Europe, the UK, and Asian countries such as China and India, which bring together a multiplicity of approaches to a continuing and common issue and reinforces the need for alternatives to the existing theoretical canon.
Author : Lin Foxhall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1118234456
Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban space Features a wide geographical and methodological range Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity
Author : Reina Lewis
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Acculturating refers to the interchange of patterns of behaviour, perceptions and ideas between groups of individuals who have different cultural backgrounds. This book, which is the result of collaboration between specialists from different disciplines from around the world, allows the comparison of systems of dependency, mediation skills, empathy and social understanding and cultural attitudes towards people who experience the stages of aging.
Author : Jennifer L. Fleissner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226253091
The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But in reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Stephen Crane, Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that feminist claims in fact shaped the period's cultural mainstream. Women, Compulsion, Modernity reopens a moment when the young American woman embodied both the promise and threat of a modernizing world. Fleissner shows that this era's expanding opportunities for women were inseparable from the same modern developments—industrialization, consumerism—typically believed to constrain human freedom. With Women, Compulsion, and Modernity, Fleissner creates a new language for the strange way the writings of the time both broaden and question individual agency.
Author : Leslie W. Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801869358
Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modernism rose naturally or inevitably to the forefront of the cultural landscape at the turn of the twentieth century.".
Author : S. Budgeon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230319874
This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order – a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched.
Author : Momin Rahman
Publisher : Polity
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0745633773
This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality provides fresh insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to recent research and theory, and wider social concerns throughout the world.
