Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction: Modernism and Scottish Modernism
- Part I Transforming Traditions
- 1 Towards a Scottish Modernism: C. M. Grieve, Little Magazines and the Movement for Renewal
- 2 Hugh MacDiarmid and Modernist Poetry in Scots
- 3 Criticism and New Writing in English
- 4 Beyond this Limit: Women, Modernism and the Modern World
- Part II Ideology and Literature
- Part III World War Two and its Aftermath
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
4 - Beyond this Limit: Women, Modernism and the Modern World
from Part I - Transforming Traditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction: Modernism and Scottish Modernism
- Part I Transforming Traditions
- 1 Towards a Scottish Modernism: C. M. Grieve, Little Magazines and the Movement for Renewal
- 2 Hugh MacDiarmid and Modernist Poetry in Scots
- 3 Criticism and New Writing in English
- 4 Beyond this Limit: Women, Modernism and the Modern World
- Part II Ideology and Literature
- Part III World War Two and its Aftermath
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
Summary
But for a woman or any being whose nature it is to live through the emotions, clarity of mind can only be got by taking the natural order. And I do think many of us thinking and educated women of this age go against our natures by striving to force ourselves to deal first through the intellect, living too much with ideas and not sufficiently trusting ourselves to the truths that would come to us through the deeper sensual and emotional channels.
Catherine Carswell (1928)In the Introduction to Gender in Scottish History Since 1700, Lynn Abrams discusses the difference between ‘women's history and a history informed by understandings of gender’, commenting that while ‘women's historians aimed first to achieve visibility for women in the past’, their aim today (at least in relation to the developed world) ‘is to identify women as historical subjects or as social actors and to integrate their stories into the historical landscape’. Similarly, Marianne Dekoven in ‘Modernism and Gender’, her contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, argues that the early phase of feminist modernist criticism was
preoccupied primarily with establishing the importance of women modernist writers, both by opening the canon to include them and by broadening our understanding of what constitutes Modernism so that it is not so exclusively defined by the valorization of formal as well as thematic characteristics (vast unifying mythic themes) associated with masculinity.
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- Scottish Modernism and its Contexts 1918–1959Literature National Identity and Cultural Exchange, pp. 68 - 90Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2009