Masculine Pregnancies - Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939

Examines literary depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

About the author

Aimee Armande Wilson is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control.

Product details

• Authors: Aimee Armande Wilson, Wilson Aimee Armande
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781438495590
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9559-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: SUNY Press Open Access
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Anthologies: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism