Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894-1934 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226832142)

Explores the emergence of a new womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in early twentieth-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life defied gender conformity, dressed in new ways, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman.

Motyl delves into how these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on the ways that easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafés and wandering through city streets helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit.

Author: Katya Motyl
ISBN-10: 0226832147
ISBN-13: 9780226832142
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2024