Futurist Women [electronic resource] : Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences /
Sica, Paola.author.
Futurist Women broadens current debates on Futurism and literary studies by demonstrating the expanding global impact of women Futurist artists and writers in the period succeeding the First World War. This study initially focuses on the local: the making of the self in the work by the women who were affiliated with the journal L'Italia futurista during World War I in Florence. But then it broadens its field of inquiry to the global. It compares the achievements of these women with those of key precursors and followers. It also conceives these women's work as an ongoing dialogue with contemporary political and scientific trends in Europe and North America, especially first wave feminism, eugenics, naturism and esotericism. Finally, it examines the vital importance and repercussions of these women's ideas in current debates on gender and the posthuman condition. This ground-breaking study will prove invaluable for all scholars and upper-level students of modern European literature, Futurism, and gender studies.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Futurist Women in Florence, 1916-18; 1.1 Profiles; 1.2 The women of L'Italia futurista and their responses to the Florentine cultural context; 1.3 Previous scholarship on Futurist women and new directions; 2 Evolving Concepts of Womanhood; 2.1 The female group of L'Italia futurista and first-wave feminism; 2.2 Battles of the sexes; 2.3. F.T. Marinetti's "Handbook of the Perfect Seducer"; 2.4 Responses to Marinetti: women and men in "Donna + Amore + Bellezza" of L'Italia futurista
2.5 New moral codes in literary and artistic works by Rosa Rosà, Irma Valeria, Fulvia Giuliani and Mina Della Pergola3 Powerful Bodies and Powerful Nations; 3.1 The influence of new medical trends, eugenics and naturism; 3.2 The body of a woman as the body of the nation: Enif Robert and F.T. Marinetti's Un ventre di donna; 3.3 Sensual bodies and cosmic dimensions: Fanny Dini and Magamal; 3.4 From virile to assemblable bodies: Maria Ginanni; 3.5 Physical strength and weakness in Rosa Rosà's short stories; 4 Regeneration through Occultism; 4.1 The supernatural in Europe
4.2 Spiritual revival in Florence4.3 Occultism and blue writing: Irma Valeria; 4.4 The infinite transparency of the soul: Maria Ginanni; 4.5 Dreams and wars: Marj Carbonaro, Fulvia Giuliani, Enrica Piubellini, Emma Marpillero and Rosa Rosà; 5 The Epitome and Repercussions of the New Woman; 5.1 Multiple identities: Rosa Rosà's Una donna con tre anime; 5.2 Precursors and followers, especially Mina Loy and Roma futurista; 5.3 After Futurism: posthumanism and cybernetic feminism; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Futurist Women broadens current debates on Futurism and literary studies by demonstrating the expanding global impact of women Futurist artists and writers in the period succeeding the First World War. This study initially focuses on the local: the making of the self in the work by the women who were affiliated with the journal L'Italia futurista during World War I in Florence. But then it broadens its field of inquiry to the global. It compares the achievements of these women with those of key precursors and followers. It also conceives these women's work as an ongoing dialogue with contemporary political and scientific trends in Europe and North America, especially first wave feminism, eugenics, naturism and esotericism. Finally, it examines the vital importance and repercussions of these women's ideas in current debates on gender and the posthuman condition. This ground-breaking study will prove invaluable for all scholars and upper-level students of modern European literature, Futurism, and gender studies.
Sociology.
Literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.