New woman hybridities : feminity, feminism and international consumer culture, 1880-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Heilmann, Ann, Beetham, Margaret, 1919-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ann Heilmann, Margaret Beetham
  • PART 1. HYBRIDITIES
  • Bertha Thomas: the New Woman and 'Anglo-Welsh' hybridity / Kirsti Bohata
  • A Hungarian New Woman writer and a hybrid autobiographical subject: Margit Kaffka's 'Lyrical notes of a year' / Nóra Séllei
  • PART 2. THROUGH THE (PERIODICAL) LOOKING GLASS
  • Writing women's history: 'the sex' debates of 1889 / Laurel Brake
  • The American New Woman and her influence on the daughters of the Empire of British Columbia in the dialy press (1880-95) / Françoise Le Jeune
  • Locating the flapper in rural Irish society: the Irish provincial press and the modern woman in the 1920s / Louise Ryan
  • Subverting the flapper: the unlikely alliance of Irish popular and ecclesiastical press in the 1920s / Maryann Gialanella Valiulis
  • Riding the tiger: ambivalent images of the New Woman in the popular press of the Weimar Republic / Ingrid Sharp
  • PART 3. COMMUNITIES OF WOMEN
  • Romance, glamour and the exotic: femininity and fashion in Britain in the 1900s / Hilary Fawcett
  • Charged with ambiguity: the image of the New Woman in American cartoons / Angelika Köhler
  • The day of the girl: Nell Brinkley and the New Woman / Trina Robbins
  • 'The woman of the twentieth century': the feminist vision and its reception in the Hungarian press 1904-14 / Judit Acsády
  • The New Woman in Japan: radicalism and ambivalence towards love and sex / Muta Kazue
  • PART 4: RACE AND THE NEW WOMAN
  • 'Natural' divisions/national divisions: whiteness and the American New Woman in the General Federation of Women's Clubs / Jill Bergman
  • The birth of national hygiene and efficiency: women and eugenics in Britian and America 1865-1915 / Angelique Richardson.