Difference in View: Women and Modernism

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Gabriele Griffin
Taylor & Francis, 1994 - Art - 186 pages
This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines. The book investigates how women usually constructed as "others", themselves construct others in their work in a period prominently concerned with the construction of self as an issue. This diversity offers a new format of reading modernism in a cross-disciplinary context.

About the author (1994)

Gabriele Griffin is a Reader in Women's Studies at Nene College, Northampton. She has contributed to What Lesbians Do In Books (eds. Elaine Hobby and Chris White, Women's Press, 1991), Insights into Blackwomen's Writing (ed. Gina Wisker, Macmillan, 1993) and to Teaching Women (eds. Ann Thompson and Helen Wilcox, Manchester University Press, 1989). She is the author of Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in Twentieth Century Women's Writing (Manchester University Press, 1993), and edited Outwrite: Lesbians and Popular Culture (Pluto Press, 1993). Together with Elaine Aston, she also edited two volumes of plays by women, Herstory vols 1 and 2 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).

Bibliographic information

TitleDifference in View: Women and Modernism
Feminist perspectives on the past and present
Gender and society : feminist perspectives on the past and present
Gender and society
EditorGabriele Griffin
Editionillustrated
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 1994
ISBN0748401342, 9780748401345
Length186 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Art / History / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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