The new woman international : : representations in photography and film from the 1870s through the 1960s / / Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, editors ; foreword by Linda Nochlin.
Images of flappers, garçonnes, Modern Girls, neue Frauen, and trampky - all embodiments of the dashing New Woman--symbolized an expanded public role for women from the suffragist era through the dawn of 1960s feminism. Chronicling nearly a century of global challenges to gender norms, &The New...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Digital culture books
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- The first new women: photography, politics, and the public place of women from the 1870s through the first World War. The new woman in American stereoviews, 1871-1905 / Melody Davis ; The new woman exposed: redefining women in modern Japanese photography / Jan Bardsley ; Female firsts: media representations of pioneering and adventurous women in the early twentieth century / Despina Stratigakos ; Domesticating the harem: the new woman in colonial Indian photography, 1895-1915 / Gianna Carotenuto
- Art and identity: gender constructions in photography and photomontage of the 1920s. Postcolonial cosmopolitanism: constructing the Weimar new woman out of a colonial imaginary / Brett M. Van Hoesen ; Hannah Höch's new woman: photomontage, distraction, and visual literacy in the Weimar Republic / Matthew Biro ; Acting the lesbian: Les amies by Germaine Krull / Clare I. Rogan ; Paris-Dessau: Marianne Brandt and the new woman in photomontage and photography, from garçonne to Bauhaus constructivist / Elisabeth Otto
- Mass media icons: the new woman as embodiment of transnational modernity. Mistaken identity in Fritz Lang's Metropolis / Maria Makela ; Chocolate baby, a story of ambition, deception, and success: refiguring the new Negro woman in the Pittsburgh Courier / Martha H. Patterson ; Bad girls: the new woman in Weimar film stills / Vanessa Rocco ; Girl, trampka, or žába? The Czechoslovak new woman / Karla Huebner ; Girls and gods: Amerikanismus and the Tiller-Effect / Lisa Jaye Young
- Girls and crisis: the new woman in the 1930s and beyond. Women, fashion, and the Spanish Civil War: from the fashion parade to the victory parade / Kathleen M. Vernon ; A new American ideal: photography and Amelia Earhart / Kristen Lubben ; Modern Mulans: reimagining the Mulan legend in Chinese film, 1920s-60s / Kristine Harris.