Modernism and Gender PDF

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This lecture introduces modernism within the unit Literature 1900-Present....

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Modernism and Gender W1 The male modernism = universal myth opposes the female modernity The language of gender and genre How are these binaries constructed? Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex ‘Biology is not Destiny’ 1949 Gender is an identity acquired The angel in the house – has no narrative, history Judith Butler ‘Gender is the cultural meaning and form that the biological body articulates’ Gender is fluid and variable on context The experience of gendered cultural identity is considered an achievement The public/private dichotomy – a false distinction Man = universal, public, intellectual, work Woman = specific, private, motherly, home Virginia Woolf Professions for Women 1931 Comments on the angel in the house Feminist Manifesto 1914 Mina Loy Poem breaks stereotypes of labour and childbirth The women’s body described as a source of knowledge Ways of reading against the poem Orlando Virginia Woolf Ending of the lecture – re watch...