The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (Ideas in Context, Series Number 84) - Softcover

Delap, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521124905 ISBN 13: 9780521124904

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In the early twentieth century the term 'feminist' was used by self-consciously 'modern' men and women, to distinguish their ideas from those of 'the women's movement', and even to adopt anti-suffrage positions. 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 during this period. Delap explores the intellectual history and cultural politics of Anglo-American feminism in a way that challenges the reader to rethink the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and 'feminism'. Focusing on the development of transnational feminisms within Edwardian and interwar print culture, feminist political argument is placed at the centre of an account of modernism, highlighting some unexpected and often uncomfortable components, including the feminist fascination with individualism and egoism; ambivalence over World War One; utopian thinking and captivation by the idea of 'the simple life'; anti-Semitism; sexual radicalism; and ideas about 'the superwoman'.

About this title

Book Description:

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'.

About the Author:

Lucy Delap is a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a member of the History Faculty in the University of Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521124905
• ISBN 13: 9780521124904
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376