1st Edition
Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine The Modern Figures of the Masses
By Rachel Schreiber
Copyright 2011
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender figures into the graphic satire created by artists for the New York City-based socialist journal, the Masses. This exceptional magazine was published between 1911 and 1917, during an unusually radical decade in American history, and featured cartoons... Read more
Contents: 'Gee, Mag, think of us bein' on a magazine cover!': introduction; The miner emerges: the gendered division of labor; $acred motherhood: parenthood in the age of maternalism; Putting the best foot forward: sex and the single woman; She will spike war's gun: suffrage, citizenship, and war; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Rachel Schreiber is Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA.
'Rather than viewing cartoons from the Masses primarily in terms of critical social stances or aesthetic choices, Schreiber uses these images to analyze the complexity of early 20th century viewpoints relating to labor, parenthood, sexuality, gender roles, and citizenship in American culture.' Helen Langa, American University, USA and author of Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York
