Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity
Given its heyday between the years 1916 and 1924, it is no surprise misogyny prevailed in the Dada movement. Thus, the editors surmise the need and rationale for this new study of Dada's lesser-known female participants. Among the numerous key figures discussed are Hannah H?ch, Juliette Roche, Suzanne Duchamp, Sophie Taeuber, Emmy Hennings, Mina Loy, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Clara Tice, Florine Stettheimer, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and Beatrice Wood. Topics include the young American girl, the gendered machine, the dandy, cross-dressing, homosexuality, and primitivism. The 19 feminist essays collected here vary in degree of clarity and successful argument, but all are stimulating. Recommended for collections in gender studies and modernism.AMary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MDCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.