Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine

The Modern Figures of the Masses

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27873-8 (ISBN)

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Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender figures into the graphic satire created by artists for the New York City-based socialist journal, the Masses. This exceptional magazine was published between 1911 and 1917, during an unusually radical decade in American history, and featured cartoons drawn by artists of the Ashcan School and others, addressing questions of politics, gender, labor and class. Rather than viewing art from the Masses primarily in terms of its critical social stances or aesthetic choices, however, this study uses these images to open up new ways of understanding the complexity of early 20th-century viewpoints. By focusing on the activist images found in the Masses and studying their unique perspective on American modernity, Rachel Schreiber also returns these often-ignored images to their rightful place in the scholarship on American modernism. This book demonstrates that the centrality of the Masses artists' commitments to gender and class equality is itself a characterization of the importance of these issues for American moderns. Despite their alarmingly regular reliance on gender stereotypes”and regardless of any assessment of the efficacy of the artists' activism”the graphic satire of the Masses offers invaluable insights into the workings of gender and the role of images in activist practices at the beginning of the last century.

Rachel Schreiber is Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA.

Contents: 'Gee, Mag, think of us bein' on a magazine cover!': introduction; The miner emerges: the gendered division of labor; $acred motherhood: parenthood in the age of maternalism; Putting the best foot forward: sex and the single woman; She will spike war's gun: suffrage, citizenship, and war; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-138-27873-4 / 1138278734
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27873-8 / 9781138278738
Zustand	Neuware