Self-Made Women in the 1920s United States

Literary Trailblazers

Matthew Niven Teorey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2832-9 (ISBN)

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Women of the 1920s led a revolt against the old standards of womanhood that were dominating US culture. Flappers and feminists, they spoke and acted out, inspiring other women to follow. This book analyzes the work of eleven important 1920s female authors who chronicled this revolt: Anzia Yezierska, Anita Loos, Mae West, Josephine Lovett, Nella Larsen, Mourning Dove, Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Bessie Smith, and Dorothy Parker. These trailblazers wrote counter-narratives to the sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia women faced during the Jazz Age. The author brings their novels, poems, plays, film scenarios, and blues lyrics into conversation with each other for the first time to show different approaches female readers could take to become autonomous individuals and full citizens. The works also encouraged readers to maintain supportive relationships with other progressive women. The author argues these works presented female readers with examples of how they could act individually and collectively to attain the political power, social status, economic independence, sexual freedom, and artistic recognition they deserved.

Matthew Niven Teorey is professor of English at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, WA.

Introduction: Counter-Narratives and Reimagined Selfhood

Chapter 1: Economic Independence: Creating a New Self

Chapter 2: Sexual Empowerment: Freeing the Sensual Self

Chapter 3: Racial Hybridity: Healing the Torn Self

Chapter 4: Lesbian Pride: Decoding the Erotic Self

Chapter 5: Political Activism: Asserting the Creative Self

Conclusion: Identity Affirmation

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-7936-2832-7 / 1793628327
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2832-9 / 9781793628329
Zustand	Neuware