More Shopping OptionsSapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, seeking collectively to answer: What range of "sapphisms" circulated during the interwar period, and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition? This exciting collection's aim is to show how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigures the relation between public and private space, interrogates the category of nationality, and redefines what it means to be a modern citizen in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Laura Doan is Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. She is author of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture (2001) and editor of several collections on the history of sexuality and lesbian studies. Jane Garrity is Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (2003).
“This project is shrewdly conceived, comprehensive in its ambition, and representative of the most innovative work going on today at the intersection of sexuality and modernity studies....This book offers us new perspectives on some of the classic questions and figures characterizing the discourse on lesbians and modernity....This is a great project.”--Jean Walton, Professor of English, University of Rhode Island, Author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (2001)
Introduction--Laura Doan and Jane Garrity * Part I: Sexual Geographies: Circulation and Mobility * The Sapphist in the City: Reading Lesbian Modernist Paris through the Frame of Sapphic Modernity--Joanne Winning * Romaine Brooks: Portraits That Look Back--Tirza True Latimer * Alice Anderson: Women, Motoring, and Australia--Georgine Clarsen * Part II: The Sapphic Body in Space: Leisure, Commodity Culture, Domesticity * Smoking and Sapphic Modernities, 1900-1939--Penny Tinkler * "Woman's Place Is the Home": Conservative Sapphic Modernity--Laura Doan * Deco with a Difference: English Interior Design during the Interwar Years--Bridget Elliott * Part III: In and Out of Place: History, Displacement, and Revision * Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in S.T. Warner's Summer Will Show--Heather Love * Virginia Woolf's Greek Lessons--Colleen Lamos * Pictures of Ambiguity: Women's Art and the Modern Woman--Pamela Gerrish Nunn * Unnatural Passions: Sex Between Women in British Journalism 1920-1960s--Alison Oram * Part IV: Embracing Discursive Space: Reimagining Psychoanalysis and Spirituality * Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover's Calendar (1912)--Jo-Ann Wallace * Seances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920--Jodie Medd * "Running to Stand Still": The Rhetorics of Arrested Development in Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel and Freud's "Psychogenesis"--Petra Rau * Mary Butts's Fanatical Pédérastie: Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris--Jane Garrity
