'Creatures Born of the Wasteland': Modernity and Female Masculinity from 1880 to 1930

“荒原上诞生的生物”：1880年至1930年的现代性和女性阳刚之气

• 批准号: 2731812
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2731812
• 关键词: Creatures; Born; Wasteland; Modernity; Female

My project explores representations of alternate masculinities in women's writing from 1880-1930, including the works of Vernon Lee, Michael Field and Vita Sackville-West. In particular, it questions whether the masculinity of the New Woman, which is often used to vilify her and the political reform she stands for, can - or should - be reconciled with the desire of queer authors to depict non-normative forms of gendered embodiment in their fiction. To achieve this aim, it places literature produced by gender non-conforming writers in dialogue with a variety of interdisciplinary sources about female masculinity from the same period, suggesting that their work can be used to create a 'counter-discourse' that complicates their conventional configuration in the mainstream imagination. Ultimately, it posits that, when viewed through this lens, their work has the unrealised potential to act as a radical 'prehistory' to our contemporary notion of gender identity as an act of self-determination.

我的项目探索 1880 年至 1930 年间女性写作中另类男性气质的表现，包括弗农·李、迈克尔·菲尔德和维塔·萨克维尔-韦斯特的作品。特别是，它质疑新女性的男性气质是否可以——或者应该——与酷儿作家描绘非规范形式的性别体现的愿望相调和，这种阳刚气质经常被用来诽谤她和她所代表的政治改革。在他们的小说中。为了实现这一目标，它将非性别作家创作的文学作品与同一时期有关女性男性气质的各种跨学科来源进行对话，表明他们的作品可以用来创造一种“反话语”，使他们的传统观念变得复杂化。主流想象中的配置。最终，它认为，从这个角度来看，他们的作品具有未实现的潜力，可以作为我们当代性别认同作为一种自决行为的观念的激进“史前史”。