The Masculine Modern Woman - Jenny Ingemarsdotter

The Masculine Modern Woman

Pushing Boundaries in the Swedish Popular Media of the 1920s
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66317-9 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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.
This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s—the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in interwar Sweden, a nation that struggled to become modern but not decadent, this study examines cultural representations and debates across several arenas including fashion, film, sports, automobility, medicine and literature. Drawing on rich empirical material, this book traces not only how the masculine modern woman reshaped the imaginary space of what women could be, do and desire, but also how this space was eventually shrunk in order to fit into an emerging vision of a family-oriented "people’s home."

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Gender and History
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-367-66317-1 / 0367663171
ISBN-13 978-0-367-66317-9 / 9780367663179
Zustand Neuware
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