The Feminist Avant-Garde
Subtitle: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (Ideas in Context)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521876513
Subjects: Feminism; History of ideas, intellectual history; Social history; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; England; USA; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Feminism & Feminist Theory
Description: "In the early twentieth century the term 'feminist' was used by self-consciously 'modern' men and women, to distinguish their ideas from those of 'the women's movement', and even to adopt anti-suffrage positions. In the first major study of twentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon, Lucy Delap offers a new perspective on the politics of gender during this period, exploring the intellectual history and cultural politics of Anglo-American feminism in a way that challenges the reader to rethink the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and ' feminism'. Focusing on the development of transnational feminisms within Edwardian and inter-war print culture, feminist political argument is placed at the centre of an account of modernism, highlighting some unexpected and often uncomfortable components, including the feminist fascination with individualism and egoism; ambivalence over World War One; utopian thinking and captivation by the idea of 'the simple life', anti-Semitism; sexual radicalism; and ideas about 'the superwoman'."--Jacket.