Maternal modernism : narrating new mothers / / Elizabeth Podnieks

• Autore: Podnieks Elizabeth
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Disciplina: 823.008
• Soggetto topico: English fiction; English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The "Persistent Rebels" of Maternal Modernism -- Introduction: Framing Modernist Motherhood -- The New Woman and New Modernism -- Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 2: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New Motherhoods -- Introduction: Modernist and Maternal Scholarship -- The True Woman, Republican Mother, and Race Mother -- The New Woman: Names and Narratives -- The Woman Movement, Feminism, and Maternalism -- Birth Control, Eugenics, and Imperial Motherhood -- Chapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: Mapping "the Terra Incognita of Herself" -- Introduction: Epochs of the Vanguard -- New Modernism and "New" Realism -- Mother-Problem Novels -- Wild Women -- The Daughters of Danaus -- Gallia -- The Awakening -- The Mother's Recompense -- The Home-Maker -- Quicksand -- Conclusion: Bad Mothers of Modernism -- Chapter 4: "The 'Momentousness' of Motherhood": Maternal Discourses and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist Review -- Introduction: Bondwomen Versus Freewomen -- Maternal Manifestoes -- New Women, New Periodical Studies, and New Modernism -- Talking the Talk: Modernist Salons -- Public and Counter-public Spheres, Discourses, and Intimacies -- The Freewoman: Feminism and the Endowment of Motherhood -- Endowment: Attacks and Counter-attacks -- Maternal Collaboration and Co-operatives -- Individualism and Motherhood -- Marriage, Motherhood, and Reproductive Agency -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: "The Title Role of 'Mother'": Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay Magazine -- Introduction: "The World's Greatest Motion Picture Publication" -- The New Woman and New Journalism -- Popular Modernisms -- Between the High and the Low -- Fandom and Feminism -- Marketing Women's Lives -- Role Mothers -- Alice Joyce -- Billie Burke -- Mae Marsh. ; Florence Vidor -- Alice Brady and Catherine Calvert -- Belle Bennett -- Barbara La Marr -- Gloria Swanson -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: "Freedom and Childbearing": Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in New Woman Autobiographies of the Interwar Era -- Introduction: Mothers on the National Arena -- Auto/biographies of Relational Motherhood -- The Personal, the Political, and the Collective -- Women's Autobiographical Traditions -- Interwar Work, Motherhood, and Modernism -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Ida B. Wells -- Storm Jameson -- Naomi Mitchison -- Vera Brittain -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: "A Mother, a Wife, a Worker and a Wonder-Woman": Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta's London Narratives -- Introduction: A Hybrid Trilogy -- Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Periodization -- Modernism and the Social Sciences -- Black Feminism and the Institution of Black Motherhood -- Traditions of African Women's Writing -- The New Woman Künstlerroman -- Second Class Citizen -- In the Ditch -- Head Above Water: An Autobiography -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century -- Opposing Camps -- Leaning Out and Opting In -- Media, Myths, and Fantasies -- New Matrifocal Genres -- Childfree by Choice and Maternal Regret -- Continuing Crusades -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Maternal Modernism
• ISBN: 9783031089114; 9783031089107
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910633921203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II