The Masculine Modern Woman: Pushing Boundaries in the Swedish Popular Media of the 1920s

ISBN-13: 9780367110260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Jenny Ingemarsdotter

Opis

This book explores how the fashionably "masculine" modern woman became one of the most visually striking and controversial symbols of modernity in the Swedish popular media of the 1920s. Drawing on rich empirical material, the analysis traces discourses on female masculinities within film, fashion, sports and literature.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Telling Stories: Film, Fashion and "Funny Complications"  1. The M-Word: Modern or Masculine?  2. "La Garçonne is Dead!—Long Live Femininity!"  Part II: Changing Stories: Negotiating Masculinities in Sports and Automobility  3. "What We Have Learned from Our Sporting Ladies": Making Sense of the Female Athlete  4. The Chauffeuse Who Wished for a Racecar: Stories of Masculinized Women Behind the Wheel  Part III: Unfinished Stories: Queer Female Masculinities  5. In No Certain Terms: Female Masculinities and Queer Desires  6. The Desire to Desire: The Masculine Modern Woman in Fiction.  Conclusion

O autorze

Jenny Ingemarsdotter holds a PhD in the History of Science and Ideas from Uppsala University and has recently concluded a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Swedish Research Council, hosted by the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, University of Manchester, UK.