Masculine Modern Woman - Pushing Boundaries in the Swedish Popular Media of the 1920s

List of contents

Introduction Part I: Telling Stories: Film, Fashion and "Funny Complications" 1. The M-Word: Modern or Masculine? 2. "La Garçonne is Dead!—Long Live Femininity!" Part II: Changing Stories: Negotiating Masculinities in Sports and Automobility 3. "What We Have Learned from Our Sporting Ladies": Making Sense of the Female Athlete 4. The Chauffeuse Who Wished for a Racecar: Stories of Masculinized Women Behind the Wheel Part III: Unfinished Stories: Queer Female Masculinities 5. In No Certain Terms: Female Masculinities and Queer Desires 6. The Desire to Desire: The Masculine Modern Woman in Fiction. Conclusion

About the author

Jenny Ingemarsdotter holds a PhD in the History of Science and Ideas from Uppsala University and has recently concluded a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Swedish Research Council, hosted by the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, University of Manchester, UK.

Summary

This book explores how the fashionably "masculine" modern woman became one of the most visually striking and controversial symbols of modernity in the Swedish popular media of the 1920s. Drawing on rich empirical material, the analysis traces discourses on female masculinities within film, fashion, sports and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Ingemarsdotter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367663179
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66317-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Sweden, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Gender studies: women and girls, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries