Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780271036632 Academic Inspection Copy

Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde

Anarchism in Interwar France
Description
Table of
Contents
Reviews
Google
Preview

A study of anarchism in twentieth-century France during the interwar years. Focuses on anarchist demands for personal autonomy and sexual liberation. Argues that these ideals, as well as anarchist hatred of the government, found favor with members of the artistic avant-garde, especially the surrealists.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: French Anarchism in the Interwar Era: Decline or Renewal?

Part I: Anarchist Bodies

1. Gender and Political Violence: The Case of Germaine Berton

2. The Bad Father and the Prodigal Son: The Death of Philippe Daudet

3. Anarchism and the Avant-Garde

4. Utopian Bodies: Anarchist Sexual Politics

5. “Your Body Is Yours”: Anarchism, Birth Control, and Eugenics

Part II: French Anarchists Between East and West

6. Facing East: Russians and Jews

7. Facing West: American Heroes

8. Renegades

Epilogue: The Renewal of Anarchism

Notes

Bibliography

Index


Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde is an illuminating study, the eclectic nature of which seems to reflect the individualism so prevalent in the interwar anarchist movement and the personal liberties its followers held dear.”

—Robyn Roslak, H-France Book Reviews

Google Preview content