The New Woman as Club Woman and Social Activist in Turn of the Century Arkansas

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Frances Mitchell Ross
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Social Activist ◽  
The New Woman

Der weibliche Aufbruch um 1900

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Wybrands
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gabriele Reuter ◽  
Female Subjects

Around 1900 there was a generation of female authors who saw themselves as such, even without forming closer groups and combined this self-image with new beginnings and innovation. By analysing generationality as a characteristic of female narration Johanna Wybrands examines to what extent this constellation is also effective on a narrative level. Using well-founded, context-oriented text analyses, the author shows that much-read authors at the turn of the century such as Hedwig Dohm, Gabriele Reuter and Helene Böhlau, with their now often forgotten works, made an important contribution to the interplay between generation and gender, to narrative ways of becoming female subjects and to the prehistory of the New Woman of the 1920s.

scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN THE NOVELS OF MELA HARTWIG

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Olga A. Dronova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Behavior Models

The work of the Austrian writer of the 1920s – early 1930s, Mela Hartwig, was rediscovered by the reader in the early 2000s after a long period of oblivion. Interest in Hartwig’s prose is caused by the connection of the problems of her work with contemporary discussions about the nature of female subjectivity. The article analyzes the novels of Mela Hartwig “The Woman is nothing” and “Am I a redundant human being?”, reflecting the identity crisis of her heroines. The reverse pole of the erasing of the personality in these novels is the multiplicity of “Self”, various behavior models that have a character of play or imitation. Reproducing traditional stereotypes about male and female nature, Hartwig at the same time demonstrates their exhaustion. In the context of the German and Austrian culture of the 1920s – the time when the image of an independent “new woman” dominated the mass media, cinema, and literature – Hartwig’s work acted as the antithesis of both the traditional and the new view of women, because both the “new woman” and the “femme fatale” of the turn of the century appear in her novels as masks that do not reflect the true identity of her heroine.

scholarly journals Representations of the New Woman in "The Irish Times" and "The Weekly Irish Times". A Preliminary Approach

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
María Jesús Lorenzo Modia ◽  
María Begoña Lasa Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
New Journalism ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Corpus Selection

This article presents a preliminary approach to the study of the images of the New Woman in the publications "The Irish Times" and "The Weekly Irish Times" at the turn of the twentieth century. From the theoretical framework of women’s studies the concept of New Woman is analysed in relation to that of New Journalism, which arose at the same time. Additionally, the aetiology and features of the two publications, plus the criteria for corpus selection, are described, and the corpus texts are compared to similar English publications of the period. The complex political situation in Ireland at the turn of the century is also considered. The role of women and the various perceptions of them are analysed, both in the sections of letters to the Editor and in essays. The roles of women in "The Irish Times" and "The Weekly Irish Times" are also compared to those depicted in journals and newspapers addressed to a female readership. The study concludes with excerpts of the two publications in question and the analysis of the contradictory opinions on the lives and roles of women in the nineteenth-century fin de siècle.

Yoga for the New Woman and the New Man: The Role of Pierre Bernard and Blanche DeVries in the Creation of Modern Postural Yoga

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Laycock
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
New Man ◽  
Country Club ◽  
The New Woman

AbstractPierre Bernard and his wife, Blanche DeVries, were among the earliest proponents of postural yoga in America. In 1924, they created the Clarkstown Country Club, where yoga was taught to affluent and influential clientele. The network created through this endeavor not only popularized yoga in the West but also advanced the reinvention of yoga as a science of health and well-being rather than as a religious practice.This article suggests that the pair's success in marketing yoga coincided with a shift in gender roles underway at the turn of the century. Economic and cultural changes led to the rise of a “New Woman” who was not only more financially independent but also more socially and sexually autonomous. At the same time, a crisis of masculinity led to the rise of the “New Man” as men sought out new cultural forms through which to restore their sense of manhood. Bernard's success depended largely on his ability to capitalize on the perceived “otherness” of yoga, presenting it as a resource for Americans seeking to construct new forms of gender identity. Bernard borrowed from the physical culture movement and presented yoga as an antidote to the emasculating effects of modern society. DeVries taught a combination of yoga and sensual Orientalist dances that offered women a form of sexual autonomy and embodied empowerment. By utilizing these strategies, Bernard and DeVries helped lay important foundations for modern postural yoga and its associations with athleticism, physical beauty, and sexuality.

Laura Jean Libbey and Sexual Transformation

2018 ◽  
pp. 199-221
Author(s):  
Dale M. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Brain Surgery ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Social Recovery

In chapter 7, Dale Bauer charts the innovations in transitional modernism that turn-of-the-century popular novelist Laura Jean Libbey created in her novels devoted to women’s romance and independence. While little-known today, Libbey’s serialized novels were highly popular and often translated into film. Libbey’s fictions bridged the divide between late nineteenth-century feminism and modern fictions of the New Woman. These novels often end with immediate brain surgeries and near-instant recoveries, with marriages into higher social classes, with rivals for suitors defeated by these women’s pain and bitterness and their transcendence. Many of Libbey’s novels chart women’s social recovery from “brain fever” and brain traumatic injury through brain surgery. As they are almost-instantly transformed to “modern women,” they are often robbed of their resistance. Libbey’s fictions emphasize the uneven development of the New Woman across the century’s turn.

scholarly journals From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona Dobosiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Social Activist ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sarah Grand ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Development Result

The New Woman fiction, popular in the last decade of the 19th century, contested the traditional notions of gender roles and participated in the public debates on women’s rights. The protagonists of the New Woman novels refused to conform to the submissive and self-abnegating Victorian ideal of femininity. The article discusses the ways in which Sarah Grand, a prominent New Woman novelist and social activist, uses and transforms both the elements of her own life and the Bildungsroman conventions in her 1897 novel The Beth Book to create a heroine whose growth and development result in her personal independence and her active public engagement in women’s issues. Cast in a variety of social roles, Beth Maclure reclaims her agency and becomes an embodiment of the New Woman.

Gender, Technology and the New Woman

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Grant Allen

This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

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