Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945
By: edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Leslie W., 1960-; Ardis, Ann L., 1957-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Women and literature -- English speaking countries.; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Sex role in literature.
Description: "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.".

"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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.