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Explores the emergence of a new womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in early twentieth-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life defied gender conformity, dressed in new ways, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman.
Motyl delves into how these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on the ways that easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafes and wandering through city streets helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit. 50 halftones CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Katya Motyl is assistant professor of history, as well as an affiliate faculty of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program and the Global Studies Program at Temple University.
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- Contributor: Katya Motyl
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226832166
- Number of Pages: 304
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
- Packaged Weight: 426
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 2024-04-26
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Katya Motyl is assistant professor of history, as well as an affiliate faculty of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program and the Global Studies Program at Temple University.
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