Modernism, Sex, and Gender

Modernism, Sex, and Gender
Author: Celia Marshik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135002046X

Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present day. The volume explores four key aspects of modernist literature and criticism that have contributed to the new modernist studies: women's contributions to modernism; masculinities; sexuality; and the intersection of gender and sexuality with politics and law. Including brief case studies of such writers as May Sinclair and Radclyffe Hall, this book is a valuable guide for those looking to understand the history of critical thought on gender and sexuality in modernist studies today.

Gender in Modernism

Gender in Modernism
Author: Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 896
Release: 2007
Genre: 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.

Modernism, Gender, and Culture

Modernism, Gender, and Culture
Author: Lisa Rado
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136515607

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.

Celibacies

Celibacies
Author: Benjamin Kahan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822377187

In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.

The New Woman

The New Woman
Author: Emma Heaney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017
Genre: Gender identity in literature
ISBN: 9780810135536

Emma Heaney's The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the evolution of the "trans feminine" as an allegorical figure from its origins in the late nineteenth century to contemporary Queer Theory.

Modernist Sexualities

Modernist Sexualities
Author: Hugh Stevens
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719051616

Leading critics from Britain, Canada, and the US examine modernism's imaginative rethinkings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Original essays show how modernism intersects with the suffragette movement, technological change and its effects on women and labor, the growth of pseudo-scientific writings, and the burgeoning lesbian and gay movement. They show how modernism upsets the fixities of gender and sexuality through its fascination with ambiguities, marginality, and the crossing of borders. Sex reformers and sex changers, unsexed storytellers, typewriters, femme and butch experimenters, suffragettes in wide-brimmed hats, musical and dramatic pageants, adolescent delinquents, sunbathers, and dancing indigenes all play a role in the heterodox and varied modernism revealed in these essays.

Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity

Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity
Author: Richard W. McCormick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312292980

Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through an analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label "New Objectivity". The New Objectivity was marked by a sober, unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contrast to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in "auratic" art. This sensibility was gendered as well as contradictory: while associated with male intellectuals, New Objectivity was best symbolized by the New Woman they feared (and desired). Moving skillfully from Caligari to Dietrich, McCormick traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.

Gender and Sexuality

Gender and Sexuality
Author: Chris Beasley
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2005-05-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780761969792

About various theories of gender, sexuality, feminism and masculinity including queer theory, transgender theorizing, modernist liberationism and social constructionism.

A History of Modernist Poetry

A History of Modernist Poetry
Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2015-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107038677

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic.