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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London

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Modernist Women and Cinema

Maggie Humm

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (21) , 2014, pp. 285 - 299

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.13.025.3183

Matching the ever-increasing numbers of female participants in the commercial venues of department stores and cinemas in the 1920s, modernist women writers enjoyed a new visibility in the intellectual world of cinema journalism. Yet cinema modernism, like literary modernism, was veined by masculinity in the 1920s. The paper argues that modernist women writers, including Colette, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf, created a feminist standpoint. By replacing the prescriptive male gaze with a feminist aesthetics: identifying with stars and women viewers and by describing audiences as socially constituted and gendered.

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The Women’s March on London: Virginia Woolf, John Berger, Judith Butler and intersectionality

Maggie Humm

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 4 (34), 2017, pp. 587 - 592

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.17.039.8206

The paper brings together three thinkers; Judith Butler, John Berger and Virginia Woolf, not often considered together, to examine how their ideas about assemblies/demonstrations, democracy and feminism apply to the Women’s March on London January 21st 2017. Intersecting these thinkers’ ideas, drawn from psychoanalytic, feminist and cultural analyses, helps to explain key features of the March, for example its careful construction of symbols and intersectional appeal. The paper concludes that the March bore features of older feminism but offered a newer feminism in its uses of social media and intersectional approach.

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