Gendering Modernism

A useful introduction, contributing to the still very necessary task of keeping feminist issues visible. * Times Higher Education * Written with a rare clarity, concision, and lucidity, Gendering Modernism builds up a rich texture of references and details that cumulatively haul the highly neglected female dimension of modernism out of oblivion. The wealth of references and wide-ranging supportive bibliography give scholarly weight and substance to the three theses, resulting in a work which is a hybrid of essay, programmatic tract, and scholarly history. This highly readable, powerful book is relevant to both modernism and feminism studies, as well as to the cultural and political history of the period 1880-1945. It is rare to see a feminist perspective explored with such a deep sense of ambivalence and complexity, so that it amplifies and enhances traditional narratives instead of exploding them. * Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UK * In true modernist spirit, Maria Bucur upsets the canon. Just as modernists rejected tradition and created new ways of seeing the world, this thought-provoking book argues that focusing on gender changes how we should evaluate modernism. Was modernism truly revolutionary if many of its practitioners adhered to traditional gender norms? Simultaneously erudite and accessible, Gendering Modernism asks its readers to rethink their fundamental assumptions about modernism and its icons. * Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University, USA *