Böcker av Lisa Rado

One classic and 17 original essays explore cultural practices and gender issues during the early 20th century when sex roles were undergoing a radical transformation. They demonstrate women's contribution to modernist culture as it was expressed in literature, painting, dance, architecture, social

Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened.