Futurist Women
Subtitle: Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 01, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781137508034
Description: "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."
Notes: Source title: Futurist Women: Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)