Politics and poetics of gender in the early 20th century : case studies in Romania and the United Kingdom / Corina Mariana Mitrulescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitrulescu, Corina Mariana, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--Romania--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Gender and Politics: Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviour in Early 20th Century Europe

1. Gender and Politics

1.1. Introduction

1.2. The Feminist Movement in Britain and Ireland

1.3. The Romanian Feminist Movement

2. Troubled Gender

ch. 2 Gender Epistemology: The Masculinity of Change, Evolution and Revolution, and the Femininity of Immanence

1. Femininity versus Masculinity. "Immanence" versus "Transcendence"

2. Gender Epistemology: Becoming Male and Female

ch. 3 The Mirror and the Mold: Confronting Gender in Early Modernist Narrative. Constructions of Gender Identity

1. Gender and Objectification. Case Study: D.H. Lawrence's "The Plumed Serpent" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

1.1. Objectification versus Individuation

1.2. Poetics and Politics of Objectification

1.3. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Power of Being Objectified

2. Gender "Misfits"

2.1. Sexual Deviance and Gender Empowerment

ch. 4 A European Women's Dream in the Twentieth Century: From Confinement to Public Dignity

Case Study: Women in Ireland and Romania at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

1. Unde Malum?

2. Structures of Power and Confinement. The State as the Main Source of Coercion

2.1. Surveillance and Confinement

2.2. Ireland's Architecture of Confinement: The Magdalene Laundries

3. Case Study: Countess Markiewicz

4. Case Study: Women in Romania

5. Misogyny and Female Objedification in Romanian Interwar Literature: A Short Overview.

Notes:

Thesis (doctoral).

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

PDF

ePub

ISBN:

9783631856680

3631856687

OCLC:

1281768239

Publisher Number:

99989029171

9783631856680