The Gender of Modernity

In an innovative exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity and calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world.

List of contents

Introduction - myths of the modern; modernity and feminism; on nostalgia - the prehistoric woman; imagined pleasures - the erotics and aesthetics of consumption; masking masculinity - the feminization of writing; love, God, and the Orient - reading the popular sublime; visions of the new - feminist discourses of evolution and revolution; the art of perversion - female sadists and male cyborgs; afterword - rewriting the modern.

About the author

Rita Felski is Professor of English, University of Virginia.

Summary

In an innovative exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity and calls into question feminist perspectives that have demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men’s and women’s experiences of the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Rita Felski, Felski Rita
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.1995
• EAN: 9780674341944
• ISBN: 978-0-674-34194-4
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology & anthropology