{"id":7137,"date":"2019-09-03T13:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:52:47","slug":"recent-phd-grad-publishes-article-on-modernist-womens-bodies-in-peer-reviewed-journal-feminist-modernist-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/news\/recent-phd-grad-publishes-article-on-modernist-womens-bodies-in-peer-reviewed-journal-feminist-modernist-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent PhD Grad Kara Watts Publishes Article on Modernist Women&#8217;s Bodies in Peer Reviewed Journal Feminist Modernist Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent PhD grad Kara Watts has published an article, &#8220;Designing women: modernist mass culture and the formation of the female body,&#8221; in the March 2019 issue of the peer reviewed journal&nbsp;<em>Feminist Modernist Studies<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the abstract, &#8220;This essay argues for charm as feminist heuristic through which we may re-examine contemporary theories of gendered embodiment. Charm as a form of bodily habitation for women in modernity seems to be another facet of cultural or sociopolitical control over female subjects. . . . I argue that charm denotes a superficiality or refusal of depth in female embodiment that interrupts, yet also acknowledges, the physiological marks inscribed upon socially written bodies by addressing theories of the body. I then locate these interruptions in the early experimental poetry of Gertrude Stein and in selected works of mass culture including magazines, beauty pamphlets, and self-help books.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/24692921.2019.1575045?journalCode=rfmd20\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent PhD grad Kara Watts has published an article, &#8220;Designing women: modernist mass culture and the formation of the female body,&#8221; in the March 2019 issue of the peer reviewed journal&nbsp;Feminist Modernist Studies.&nbsp; According to the abstract, &#8220;This essay argues for charm as feminist heuristic through which we may re-examine contemporary theories of gendered embodiment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}