Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index.
Contents
Becoming modern : gender and sexual identity after World War I / Whitney Chadwick and Tirza True Latimer -- Gender, race, and miscegenation : African Americans in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall -- Deconsecrating modernism : allegories of regeneration in Brooks and Picasso / Bridget Elliott -- "Never admit!" : Colette and the freedom of paradox / Isabelle de Courtivron -- Samson and Delilah revisited : the politics of fashion in 1920s France / Mary Louise Roberts -- Painting the perverse : Tamara de Lempicka and the modern woman artist / Paula Birnbaum -- Sonia Delaunay's Simultaneous fashions and the modern woman / Tag Gronberg -- Looking like a lesbian : portraiture and sexual identity in 1920s Paris / Tirza True Latimer -- Djuna Barnes : looking like a lesbian/poet / Carolyn Allen -- Singular plural : collaborative self-images in Claude Cahun's Aveux non avenus / Jennifer Shaw -- "Something hidden, secret, and eternal" : Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall and the lesbian image in The forge / Joe Lucchesi -- Modern dancers and African Amazons : Augusta Savage's sculptures of women, 1929-1930 / Theresa Leininger-Miller -- Lee Miller's two bodies / Whitney Chadwick -- "Le numéro Barbette" : photography and the politics of embodiment in interwar Paris / Amy Lyford.
