Description: Masculine Pregnancies : Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1, Hardcover by Wilson, Aimee Armande, ISBN 1438495595, ISBN-13 9781438495590, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Who is taken seriously as an artist? What does gender have to do with it? Is there a relationship between artistic creation and physical procreation? In Masculine Pregnancies, Aimee Armande Wilson argues that modernist writers used depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to answer these questions. Th places "masculine pregnancies" in works by Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ezra Pound in the context of interwar debates about eugenics, immigration, midwifery, and sexology in order to redefine the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism. Attending to recent developments in queer theory, Wilson challenges the critical assumption that figures of masculine pregnancy necessarily reinforce oppressive norms. Th's first half shows how some writers indeed used such figures to delegitimize artists who were not white, male, and heterosexual. The second half then shows how others used masculine pregnancies to extend legitimacy to mannish women, dark-skinned immigrants, and their (pro)creations—and did so a century before the current boom in queer pregnancy narratives.
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Book Title: Masculine Pregnancies : Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Women, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Aimee Armande Wilson
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
