{"product_id":"gender-of-modernity-rita-felski-9780674341944","title":"The Gender of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining cultural history with cultural theory, and focusing on the \u003ci\u003efin de si cle\u003c\/i\u003e, Felski examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution, and perversion. Her approach is comparative and interdisciplinary, covering a wide variety of texts from the English, French, and German traditions: sociological theory, realist and naturalist novels, decadent literature, political essays and speeches, sexological discourse, and sentimental popular fiction. Male and female writers from Simmel, Zola, Sacher-Masoch, and Rachilde to Marie Corelli, Wilde, and Olive Schreiner come under Felski's scrutiny as she exposes the varied and often contradictory connections between femininity and modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeen through the lens of Felski's discerning eye, the last \u003ci\u003efin de si cle\u003c\/i\u003e provides illuminating parallels with our own. And Felski's keen analysis of the matrix of modernism offers needed insight into the sense of cultural crisis brought on by postmodernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rita Felski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674341945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674341944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.06w x 0.62d","brand":"Rita Felski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981084295423,"sku":"9780674341944","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3bbc255f-1abf-4c92-9bc4-68672df22cbe.jpg?v=1683253571","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gender-of-modernity-rita-felski-9780674341944","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}