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Author Ingemarsdotter, Jenny, author

Title The masculine modern woman : pushing boundaries in the Swedish popular media of the 1920s / Jenny Ingemarsdotter
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Series Routledge research in gender and history
Routledge research in gender and history.
Contents The m-word: modern or masculine? -- La Garçonne is dead! Long live femininity! -- What we have learned from our sporting ladies: making sense of the female athlete -- The chauffeuse who wished for a racecar: stories of masculinized women behind the wheel -- In no certain terms: female masculinities and queer desires -- The desire to desire: the masculine modern woman in fiction
Summary "This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s--the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in interwar Sweden, a nation that struggled to become modern but not decadent, this study examines cultural representations and debates across several arenas including fashion, film, sports, automobility, medicine and literature. Drawing on rich empirical material, this book traces not only how the masculine modern woman reshaped the imaginary space of what women could be, do and desire, but also how this space was eventually shrunk in order to fit into an emerging vision of a family-oriented "people's home."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2019)
Subject Women -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century
Masculinity in popular culture -- Sweden
Sex role -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Masculinity in popular culture
Sex role
Women
Sweden
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018047673
ISBN 9780429024399
0429024398
9780429656538
042965653X