Ambivalent Desires

The "New Woman" Between Social Modernization and Modern Writing
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-3-8253-1576-4
Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter

Buch, Englisch, Band 113, 331 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: American Studies

The study explores the phenomenon of the New Woman as a most controversial construct of turn-of-the19th-century US-American culture. Images of the New Woman shaped the discourses of mainstream press as well as those of leading feminists of the time. Against the background of the processes of social modernization, the multifaceted versions of this female image are investigated as productions und reproductions of women's "ambivalent desires" to articulate their female awareness of modernity by rereading texts written by male and female so-called popular and canonical authors and by discussing selected contemporary discourses of journalism. The analysis sets out to explore the centrality of gender to the development of forms of modern US-American writing conceptualized as a network of diverse yet mutually interacting gendered discourses.

Bisherige Forschungsschwerpunkte der Autorin:

Turn-of-the 19th-century US-American Literature, multiethnic literatures of the US

Autoren/Hrsg.

Köhler, Angelika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur