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" Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945 / "
edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis.
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635054
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Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945 /\ edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis.
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2003.
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vii, 312 p. ;; 23 cm.
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0801869358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780801869358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction / Ann L. Ardis -- PART I. Negotiating the literary marketplace -- Writing a public self: Alice Meynell's "Unstable equilibrium" / Talia Schaffer -- Towards a new "colored" consciousness: biracial identity in Pauline Hopkin's fiction / Leslie W. Lewis -- Authority of experience: Jane Addams and Hull-house / Francesca Sawaya -- "This other Eden": homoeroticism and the Great War in the early poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe Hall / Claire Buck -- Heir unapparent: Opal Whitely and the female as child in America / Deborah Garfield -- PART II. Outside the metropolis -- In-between modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a postcolonial perspective / Alpana Sharma -- New Negro modernity: worldliness and interiority in the novels of Emma Dunham Kelly-Hawkins / Carla L. Peterson -- Olive Schreiner, South Africa, and the costs of modernity / Carolyn Burdett -- "Tropical ovaries": gynecological degeneration and Lady Arabella's "female difficulties" in Bram Stoker's The lair of the white worm / Piya Pal-Lapinski -- Two talks with Khun Fa / Lynn Theismeyer -- PART III. The shifting terrain of public life -- "Stage business" as citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the world's Columbian exposition / James C. Davis -- Phenomena in flux: the aesthetics and politics of traveling in modernity / Ana Parejo Vadillo -- New woman's appetite for "riotous living": Rebecca West, modernist feminism, and the everyday / Barbara Green -- Djuna Barnes makes a specialty of crime: violence and the visual in her early journalism / Katherine Biers -- In pursuit of an erogamic life: Marie Stopes and the culture of Married love / Lucy Burke -- Shift work: observing women observing, 1937-1945 / Julian Yates -- Afterword / Rita Felski.
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"In Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945, literary scholars working with a variety of interdisciplinary methodologies move feminine phenomena from the margins of the study of modernity to its center. 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.".
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"During this period, "women's experience" was a rallying cry for feminists, a unifying cause that allowed women to work together to effect social change and make claims for women's rights in terms of their access to the public world - as voters, paid laborers, political activists, and artists commenting on life in the modern world. Women's experience, however, also proved to be a source of great divisiveness among women, for claims about its universality quickly unraveled to reveal the classism racism, and Eurocentrism of various feminist activities and organizations."--BOOK JACKET.
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American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)-- United States.
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Women and literature-- English-speaking countries.
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English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Feminism and literature-- English-speaking countries.
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Sex role in literature.
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PS228.M63W66 2003
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Lewis, Leslie W.,1960-
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Ardis, Ann L.,1957-
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