Sapphic Modernities

Sexuality, Women and National Culture
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-349-52858-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrity, J.

Doan, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; L.Doan & J.Garrity PART I: SEXUAL GEOGRAPHIES: CIRCULATION AND MOBILITY The Sapphist in the City: Reading Lesbian Modernist Paris Through the Frame of Sapphic Modernity; J.Winning Romaine Brooks: Portraits That Look Back; T.T.Latimer Alice Anderson: Women, Motoring and Australia; G.Clarson PART II: THE SAPPHIC BODY IN SPACE: LEISURE, COMMODITY CULTURE, DOMESTICITY Smoking and Sapphic Modernities, 1900-1939; P.Tinkler 'Woman's Place is the Home': Conservative Sapphic Modernity; L.Doan Deco With a Difference: English Interior Design During the Interwar Years; B.Elliott PART III: IN AND OUT OF PLACE: HISTORY, DISPLACEMENT AND REVISION Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in S.T. Warner's Summer Will Show; H.Love Virginia Woolf's Greek Lessons; C.Lamos Pictures of Ambiguity: Women's Art and the Modern Woman; P.Gerrish Nunn Unnatural Passions: Sex Between Women in British Journalism 1920-1960s; A.Oram PART IV: EMBRACING DISCURSIVE SPACE: REIMAGINING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SPIRITUALITY Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover's Calendar (1912); J.Wallace Seances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920; J.Medd 'Running to Stand Still': The Rhetorics of Arrested Development in Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel and Freud's 'Psychogenesis'; P.Rau Mary Butts's Fanatical Pédérastie: Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris; J.Garrity

Über Autor(innen)

LAURA DOAN is Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. She is author of (2001) and editor of several collections on the history of sexuality and lesbian studies.

JANE GARRITY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of (2003).