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Title

Essays on women's artistic and cultural contributions 1919-1939 : expanded social roles for the new woman following the First World War / edited by Paula Birnbaum and Anna Novakov ; with a preface by Flavia Marcello.

Publication

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Birnbaum, Paula.
• Novakov, Anna.

Description

vii, 264 pages, 29 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Women artists > Social conditions
• Women artists > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index.

Contents

Preface / Flavia Marcello -- General Introduction / Paula Birnbaum and Anna Novakov -- Pt. 1. Reconfiguring Girlhood -- 1. Marching Teams and Modem Girls: Bodies and Culture in Interwar New Zealand / Charlotte Macdonald -- 2. Gender and Generational Identity: Camp Fire Girls and Cultural Production in the Interwar Years / Jennifer Helgren -- 3. Deconstructing Girlhood: Claude Cahun's "Sophie la Symboliste" / Jennifer L. Shaw -- Pt. 2. Modernity and Visual Culture -- 4. Weimar Cultural Production: Visual Pleasure and Radical Critique in the Work of Hannah Hoch / Melissa Johnson -- 5. Modem Madonnas and Working Mothers / Paula Birnbaum -- 6. Modern Girls, Working Women, and Housewives: Japanese Women Artists in the Interwar Years / Laura W. Allen -- Pt. 3. Re-Imagining Gender and Race -- 7. Pool and the Production of Cinema, Sexuality, and Race during the Interwar Era / Tirza True Latimer -- 8. Frida Kahlo, American Nationalism, and The New Mestiza Woman / Celia S. Stahr -- 9. Passion and Valor in Malvina Hoffman's Sculptures from the Interwar Years / Susan Martis -- Pt. 4. Craftswomen and National Identity -- 10. "The Fabric of the Nation's Art": Women's Appropriation of Aboriginal Textile Motifs during the Interwar Period in British Columbia / Tusa Shea -- 11. Foreign Treasures: Elizabeth Ginno's Costume Etchings at the 1940 Exposition on Treasure Island / Heather A. Vaughan -- Pt. 5. Women and Public Spaces -- 12. The Bobbed Builder: Women Architects in the Weimar Republic / Despina Stratigakos -- 13. A Bath in the Surf: Ivana Tomljenovic's Interwar Street Photographs / Anna Novakov -- 14. Hobo Girls: The Inauspicious Working Girl and Ideal Fluidity / Stephanie Ellis.

ISBN

• 9780773448070
• 0773448071

LCCN

• 2009014040
• 40016755057

OCLC

• ocn317927673
• 317927673
• SCSB-5479621

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries