No Modernism Without Lesbians

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Crammed with facts and personalities, and flowing generally smoothly between a lot of different people, places and projects, through the framework of taking each life separately. Let's get into the real mess of gender, feminism, punishment, class, politics, and culture and leave easy rhetoric and jingoism behind. Its name comes from the slang dialect gay men used to covertly communicate with each other before male homosexuality was legalised.

Diana Souhami wins 2021 Polari prize for No Modernism Without

An approachable and interesting entry point to the queer world of 1920s Paris and modernism and some of the fascinating figures and connections within that world. She followed Gluck (1988), with Gertrude and Alice (1991), an account of the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Cameron and Jessa discuss why these properties are still considered "guilty pleasures" despite the harm they are doing and why they all seem to be designed by incels.Daunted by Stein’s droning epic The Making of Americans, Souhami has better luck with the avian burbling of her libretto for Virgil Thomson’s all-black opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Zelf ga ik na lezing op zoek naar de Pilgrimage reeks van de totaal vergeten Dorothy Richardson (“Pointed Roofs” is het eerste boek), “The Heart to Artemis” van Bryher en de biografie Van Janet Flanner, waarvan ik niet meer wist dat ik die had, maar die ik tussen mijn boekentorens toevallig tegenkwam. Toklas which lasted from their first meeting to Stein's death in 1946, Greta and Cecil (1994) examining the romantic relationship between Greta Garbo and Cecil Beaton, and Mrs Keppel and her daughter (1996), a dual biography of Alice Keppel, a long-time mistress of King Edward VII, and her daughter, Violet Trefusis. I wanted to turn the issue around,” says Souhami of women’s contributions to modernism, “gain the upper hand, move from campaign and argument for acceptance and civil rights, and show what women in same-sex relationships achieved—singly and, even more so, collectively—in that crucial twentieth-century transition to new ways of seeing.

No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

The author opts for the term lesbian, but other identities along the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender could also be applicable—such as trans in the case of Bryher, who rejected her birth name and gender from a young age. Specialising in queer theory at uni, it’s saddening to see that the exclusion of trans individuals (and any other sexualities that are the ‘L’ in the case of this book) is still such a prominent issue in queer studies.Hutchinson, who served as an assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, gained national prominence when she testified to the House Select Committee, providing possibly the most damaging portrait of Trump’s erratic behavior to date. I think of modernism as this break from old ways of writing, old ways of seeing, and old ways of being. Her life of Gluck was her only book in which she used a birth-to-death approach until her life of Edith Cavell (2010).

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Alice kept house, cooked, and allowed Gertrude to be a full-time genius, which was hard work because “you have to sit around so much doing nothing”. Souhami’s lesbians were seeing themselves differently—as independent, rather than as the daughters, wives, or mothers of men—so why shouldn’t they see the world differently too—through stream-of-consciousness in literature or cubism in painting? A comment from Picasso about Beach could stand in for Paris’ perspective of them all: “They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.Romaine's lover Natalie Barney said that Paris had been 'the Sapphic Centre of the Western World', and these women defined it.