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Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aimee Armande WilsonPublish date:2024-06-02Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438495606ISBN-10:1438495609UPC:9781438495606Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Modern, Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:20th Century, WomenSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCKMN1ZYJY
Who is taken seriously as an artist? What does gender have to do with it? Is there a relationship between artistic creation and physical procreation? In Masculine Pregnancies, Aimee Armande Wilson argues that modernist writers used depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to answer these questions. The book places "masculine pregnancies" in works by Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ezra Pound in the context of interwar debates about eugenics, immigration, midwifery, and sexology in order to redefine the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism. Attending to recent developments in queer theory, Wilson challenges the critical assumption that figures of masculine pregnancy necessarily reinforce oppressive norms. The book's first half shows how some writers indeed used such figures to delegitimize artists who were not white, male, and heterosexual. The second half then shows how others used masculine pregnancies to extend legitimacy to mannish women, dark-skinned immigrants, and their (pro)creations--and did so a century before the current boom in queer pregnancy narratives.
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438495606ISBN-10:1438495609UPC:9781438495606Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Modern, Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:20th Century, WomenSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCKMN1ZYJY
Publisher: State University of New York Press

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