Women in Europe between the Wars

Angela Kimyongur is Senior Lecturer in French/Director of Research, Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education at University of Hull.

Contents: Women in Europe between the wars: a culture of contradictions, Angela Kershaw and Angela Kimyongür. Part I 'The Spectacle of Europe': Women Writers and European Politics: 'The spectacle of Europe': politics, PEN and prose fiction: the work of Storm Jameson in the inter-war years, Jennifer Birkett; 'Less than a whisper raised against the massed music': British women writers address 1930s fascism, Mary Anne Schofield; Women's writing and the creation of political subjectivities in inter-war France. Louise Weiss: novelist, autobiographer and journalist, Angela Kershaw; Four years in Paris: Victoria Kent, a Spanish politician in exile, Lesley Twomey; Tales of the runaway countess: gender and politics in Hermynia zur Mühlen's literature for girls, Ailsa Wallace. Part II 'Is Anybody Listening?': Renegotiating the Cultural Canon: Is anybody listening? Dutch women writers between the wars, Jane Fenoulhet; Women and culture in fascist Italy, Sharon Wood; Bodies of discomfort: Mina Loy, the futurists and feminism in Italy between the wars, Laura Scuriatti; Women between the wars: new geographies of cultural diversity, Martine Antle. Part III 'Women and the Public Sphere': Women's Professional and Voluntary Work: Jewish intellectual women and the public sphere in inter-war Vienna, Lisa Silverman; Germaine Dulac and the French film industry between the wars: modernising the 'news-real', Tami Williams; Conducting and empowerment: music-making in the Women's Institute during the inter-war years, Lorna Gibson; Women and their professions in the inter-war period in the Ukrainian Soviet socialist republic, Yevgeniya Dodina; Notes on contributors; Index.