Research Catalog

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.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Birnbaum, Paula.
• Novakov, Anna.

Description

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

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Women artists > Social conditions
• Women artists > History > 20th century
• Women artists
• Künstlerin
• Sozialstatus
• Frau
• Kunst
• Geschlechterrolle

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Preface / Flavia Marcello -- Acknowledgments -- General introduction / Paula Birnbaum and Anna Novakov -- Part One: Reconfiguring girlhood -- 1. Marching teams and modern girls: bodies and culture in interwar New Zealand / Charlotte Macdonald -- Gender and generational identity: Camp Fire girls and cultural production in the interwar years / Jennifer Helgren -- Deconstructing girlhood: Claude Cahun's "Sophie la Symboliste" / Jennifer L. Shaw -- Part Two: Modernity and Visual Culture -- 4. Weimar cultural production: visual pleasure and radical critique in the work of Hannah Hoch / Melissa Johnson -- 5. Modern madonnas and working mothers / Paula Birnbaum -- 6. Modern girls, working women, and housewives: Japanese women artists in the interwar years / Laura W. Allen -- Part Three: Re-imagining gender and race -- 7. Pool and the production of cinema, sexuality, and race during the interwar era / Tirza True Latimer -- 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 -- Part Four: 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 -- Part Five: 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 -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780773448070
• 0773448071

LCCN

2009014040

OCLC

• ocn317927673
• 317927673
• SCSB-1522830

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library