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The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars » (New Edition)

Authors: Whitney Chadwick, Tirza True Latimer
ISBN-13: 9780813532929, ISBN-10: 0813532922
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: New Edition

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Becoming Modern: Gender and Sexual Identity after World War I	3
2	Gender, Race, and Miscegenation: African Americans in Jazz Age Paris	21
3	Deconsecrating Modernism: Allegories of Regeneration in Brooks and Picasso	35
4	"Never Admit!": Colette and the Freedom of Paradox	55
5	Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Fashion in 1920s France	65
6	Painting the Perverse: Tamara de Lempicka and the Modern Woman Artist	95
7	Sonia Delaunay's Simulataneous Fashions and the Modern Woman	109
8	Looking Like a Lesbian: Portraiture and Sexual Identity in 1920s Paris	127
9	Djuna Barnes: Looking Like a Lesbian/Poet	145
10	Singular Plural: Collaborative Self-Images in Claude Cahun's Aveux non avenus	155
11	Something Hidden, Secret, and Eternal": Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall, and the Lesbian Image in The Forge	169
12	Modern Dancers and African Amazons: Augusta Savage's Sculptures of Women, 1929-1930	183
13	Lee Miller's Two Bodies	199
14	"Le Numero Barbette": Photography and the Politics of Embodiment in Interwar Paris	223
App	The Napoleonic Civil Code of 1804	237
	Bibliography	241
	Notes on Contributors	249
	Index	251