Gender in Modernism

Now we fully understand that gender, the interplay of class, race and ethnicity, sexuality and global situation, is far more complex than mere sex, that which is simply a construct of chromosomes. Some of these perceptions have lead to the realization that the canon of modernism is primarily a construct in which only those who are white, male, middle- class, heterosexual, and born in the northwest corner of the globe need apply. Kime Scott and dozens of contributors from a variety of times and places provide plenty of reading on these and associated issues including suffrage, the sex wars, leftist women poets, sentimental modernism, journalism, women editors, continental modernism, lesbian political history, queer conjunctions, passing, race, anti-colonial consciousness, war, trauma, the other, medicine, authorship, drama, dance, painting and 1920s film. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)