New woman hybridities : feminity, feminism and international consumer culture, 1880-1930 / / edited by Ann Heilmann and Margaret Beetham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808761603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-42270-9; 1-134-42269-5; 0-203-68381-1; 1-280-02538-7; 0-203-64321-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Collana: Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; ; 1
• Classificazione: 71.31
• Altri autori (Persone): HeilmannAnn; BeethamMargaret <1919->
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetti: Feminism; Femininity; Feminist theory; Women - Identity; Consumer behavior
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Hybridities; Bertha Thomas: the New Woman and 'Anglo-Welsh' hybridity; A Hungarian New Woman writer and a hybrid autobiographical subject: Margit Kaffka's 'Lyrical Notes of a Year'; Through the (periodical) looking glass; Writing women's history: 'the sex' debates of 1889; The American New Woman and her influence on the Daughters of the Empire of British Columbia in the daily press (1880 95); Locating the flapper in rural Irish society: the Irish provincial press and the modern woman in the 1920sSubverting the flapper: the unlikely alliance of Irish popular and ecclesiastical press in the 1920s; Riding the tiger: ambivalent images of the New Woman in the popular press of the Weimar Republic; Communities of women; Romance, glamour and the exotic: femininity and fashion in Britain in the 1900s; Charged with ; ambiguity: the image of the New Woman in American cartoons; The day of the girl: Nell Brinkley and the New Woman; 'The woman of the twentieth century': the feminist vision and its reception in the Hungarian press 1904 14The New Woman in Japan: radicalism and ambivalence towards love and sex; Race and the New Woman; 'Natural' divisions/national divisions: whiteness and the American New Woman in the General Federation of Women's Clubs; The birth of national hygiene and efficiency: women and eugenics in Britain and America 1865 1915; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts as a marker of modernity. This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted withi