Feminist Avant-Garde - Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Lucy Delap is a fellow of St Catharine's College! Cambridge! and a member of the History Faculty in the University of Cambridge. Klappentext The first major study of twentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon. Zusammenfassung In the first major study of twentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon! Lucy Delap offers a unique perspective on the politics of gender. By exploring the intellectual history and cultural politics of Anglo-American feminism Delap challenges the reader to re-think the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and 'feminism'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. 'Fastidious, difficult, different': Anglo-American feminists; 2. Transatlantic interchanges and rival storm-centres; 3. Individualism in feminist political argument; 4. The state, the home and nurturing citizenship; 5. The endowment of motherhood controversy; 6. The modern and the pre-modern: feminist utopian thinking; 7. The genius and the superwoman: feminist appropriations; 8. Feminists and the impact of world war; 9. 'Ephemeral vanguardism': conclusions and post-war developments.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Delap, Lucy (St Catharine''s College Delap
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521124904
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12490-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories