Fury Archives - Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women¿s movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another. Jill Richards argues that these movements were deeply interconnected. Rather than focus on the demand for the vote, The Fury Archives turns to the daily practices and social worlds of feminist action.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Sex and Citizenship in the Atlantic Archives
1. The Fury Archives: Afterlives of the Female Incendiary
2. The Long Middle: Militant Suffrage from Britain to South Africa
Part II. The Reproductive Atlantic
3. The Art of Not Having Children: Birth Strike, Sabotage, and the Reproductive Atlantic
4. Rhineland Bastards, Queer Species: An Afro-German Case Study
Part III. Convergences in Institutional Human Rights
5. Surrealism’s Inhumanities: Chance Encounter, Lesbian Crime, Queer Resistance
6. The Committee Form: Négritude Women and the United Nations
Epilogue. Social Reproduction and the Midcentury Witch: Leonora Carrington in Mexico
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Juno Jill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. They are a coauthor of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia, 2020).

Summary

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women’s movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another. Jill Richards argues that these movements were deeply interconnected. Rather than focus on the demand for the vote, The Fury Archives turns to the daily practices and social worlds of feminist action.

Additional text

Traversing the boundary between the intimate and the public, Richards shows us how to look anew at female citizenship . . . [The Fury Archives] offers important methodological insights to human rights scholars concerned with the field's over-reliance on narrative history.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Richards, Juno Jill Richards
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231197113
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19711-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History: specific events & topics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Comparative Literature, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, General and world history, Literary theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, 20th century women's history