From Library Journal
Given its heyday between the years 1916 and 1924, it is no surprise misogyny prevailed in the Dada movement. Thus, the editors surmise the need and rationale for this new study of Dada's lesser-known female participants. Among the numerous key figures discussed are Hannah H?ch, Juliette Roche, Suzanne Duchamp, Sophie Taeuber, Emmy Hennings, Mina Loy, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Clara Tice, Florine Stettheimer, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and Beatrice Wood. Topics include the young American girl, the gendered machine, the dandy, cross-dressing, homosexuality, and primitivism. The 19 feminist essays collected here vary in degree of clarity and successful argument, but all are stimulating. Recommended for collections in gender studies and modernism.AMary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MD
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Linda Nochlin, Bookforum, Summer 1999
"But what Women in Dada raises time and time again is the issue of art and gender -- really, art and sex here. No matter how freely these women cast their bodies about and shunned conventional marriage, most of them were standard heterosexual... Self-objectification and active agency are hard to juggle. For many women of the period, including those connected to the Dada movement, sexual freedom was a goal to be pursued at almost any cost -- and the cost, in terms of personal agency and achievement, was high. Women in Dada performs an important function not merely in reviving lost reputations, but in raising issues that are as hot -- if not new -- today as they were in the Dada epoch."
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