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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814229103321

Autore

Felski Rita <1956->

Titolo

The gender of modernity / / Rita Felski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-674-26338-3

0-674-03679-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Civilization, Modern - 19th century

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

Women and literature

Women in literature

Feminist criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction - myths of the modern; modernity and feminism; on nostalgia - the prehistoric woman; imagined pleasures - the erotics and aesthetics of consumption; masking masculinity - the feminization of writing; love, God, and the Orient - reading the popular sublime; visions of the new - feminist discourses of evolution and revolution; the art of perversion - female sadists and male cyborgs; afterword - rewriting the modern.

Sommario/riassunto

In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion.