Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Myths of the Modern 1
5. 1 Modernity and Feminism 11
6. 2 On Nostalgia: The Prehistoric Woman 35
7. 3 Imagined Pleasures: The Erotics and Aesthetics of Consumption 61
8. 4 Masking Masculinity: The Feminization of Writing 91
9. 5 Love, God, and the Orient: Reading the Popular Sublime 115
10. 6 Visions of the New: Feminist Discourses of Evolution and Revolution 145
11. 7 The Art of Perversion: Female Sadists and Male Cyborgs 174
12. Afterword: Rewriting the Modern 207
13. Notes 213
14. Index 241