politics, culture and society
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kershaw, Angela > [ed]
- Creator
- Kimyongür, Angela > [ed]
- Contributor
- Dodina, Yevgeniya
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 1G 2007
- Thesaurus
- geschiedenis, literatuur, meisjesboeken, canons, fascisme, feminisme, joodse vrouwen, film, muziek, Nederland, Europa, interbellum
- Description
- The aim of this book is to make visible the intentionality behind the 'forgetting' of European women's contributions during the period between the two world wars in the context of politics, culture and society. It also seeks to analyse women's agency in the construction and reconstruction of Europe and its nation states after the First World War, and thus to articulate ways in which the writing of women's history necessarily entails the rewriting of everyone's history. .By showing that the erasure of women's texts from literary and cultural history was not accidental but was ideologically motivated, the essays explicitly and implicitly contribute to debates surrounding canon formation. Other important topics are women's political activism during the period, antifascism, the contributions made by female journalists, the politics of literary production, genre, women's relationship with and contributions to the avant-garde, women's professional lives, and women's involvement in voluntary associations. The chapter about the Netherlands is about Dutch women writers between the wars.