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the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sloboda, Noel
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- FR 9 2008
- Thesaurus
- autobiografieën, expatriates, Frankrijk, Amerikaans, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939
- Description
- While living in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, expatriate American writers Edith Warton (1862-1937) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) never crossed paths. They did rub shoulders in print, in autobiographical essays published by the Atlantic Monthly in 1933. Out of these essays grew the book-length autobiographies, 'A backward glance' (Wharton 1934) and 'The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' (Stein 1933). By analyzing the personal and cultural contexts in wich these works were produced, as well as subjects common to both authors, Sloboda reveals the connections.
race, class, and gender in modern African-American and Jewish-American literature
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rottenberg, Catherine
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- romans, identiteit, etniciteit, sociale klasse, gender, Verenigde Staten, 1910-1919, 1920-1929
- Description
- In this book Rottenberg raises questions about what it means to be an American through an analysis of modern African-American and Jewish literature. The book illustrates how the early-twentieth-century novels of Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Anzia Yezierska, and Abraham Cahan help us to understand the specific ways that gender, class, race, and ethnicity have regulated the identity formation of African an Jewish Americans, as well as the ways these categories have helped produce and sustain social stratification in the United States more generally.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Roiphe, Katie
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 32 2008
- Thesaurus
- huwelijken, relaties, schrijvers, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, biografische gegevens
- Description
- In 'Mariage à la mode' Kathie Roiphe studies a certain type of progressive marriage, occurring in literary circles in England, in the period from roughly 1910 to the beginning of the second World War. She is interested in different aspects of the marriages, one of which is the difference between the ideas on love and marriage, and real life. Roiphe thought it remarkable that, in spite of the most progressive, forward-thinking intentions of the couples in the book, it is astonishing what a stubborn hold the most archaic ideas of marriage had on their imaginations. The couples portrait are: H.G. and Jane Wells: Katherine Mansfield & John Middleton Murry: Elizabeth von Arnim & John Francis Russel: Vanessa & Clive Bell: Ottoline & Philip Morrell: Radclyffe Hall & Una Troubridge: Vera Brittain & George Gordon Catlin.
early women motorists
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Clarsen, Georgine
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2008
- Thesaurus
- technologie, vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, auto- en motorsport, automonteurs, taxichauffeurs, reizen, loopbanen, 1900-1909, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author looks at the history of the automobile and its influence on the lives and careers of women in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. Illuminating the relationship between women and cars with case studies from across the globe this book challenges the received wisdom that men embraced automobile technology more naturally than did women. Clarsen highlights the personal stories of women from the United States, Britain, Australia, and colonial Africa from the early days of motoring until 1930. She looks at the way women embraced automobile technology in their national and cultural context. As mechanics and taxi drivers and long-distance adventurers and political activists -- like South Africans Margaret Belcher and Ellen Budgell and American suffragist Sara Bard Field -- women sought to define the technology in their own terms and according to their own needs. They challenged traditional notions of femininity through their love of cars and proved they were articulate, confident, and mechanically savvy motorists in their own right.
women, nation, and visual culture in Mexico, 1917-1936
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hershfield, Joanne
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- LAT 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, sekserollen, populaire cultuur, identiteit, seksualiteit, moederschap, uiterlijk, vrouwelijkheid, sociale klasse, etniciteit, historisch, Mexico, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author examines visual images of la chica moderna, exploring how the modern woman was envisioned in Mexican popular culture and how she figured into postrevolutionary contestations over Mexican national identity. .Through her interpretations of visual representations of la chica moderna, she demonstrates how the images embodied popular ideas and anxieties about sexuality, work, motherhood, and feminine beauty, as well as class and ethnicity.
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