Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction / WHITNEY CHADWICK AND TIRIA TRUE LATIMER
PART ONE Imagining Modernity
1. BECOMING MODERN
Gender and Sexual Identity after World War / WHITNEY CHADWICK AND TIRIA TRUE LATIMER
2.GENDER, RACE, AND MISCEGENATION
African Americans in Jazz Age Paris / TYLER STOVALL
3. DECONSECRATING MODERNISM
Allegories of Regeneration in Brooks and Picasso / BRIDGET ELLIOTT
PART TWO Modern Modes
4. "NEVER ADMIT!"
Colette and the Freedom of Paradox / ISABELLE DE COURTIVRON
5. SAMSON AND DELILAH REVISITED
The Politics of Fashion in 1920's France / MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
6. PAINTING THE PERVERSE
Tamara de Lempicka and the Modern Woman Artist / PAULA BIRNBAUM
7. SONIA DELAUNAY'S SIMULTANEOUS FASHIONS AND THE MODERN WOMAN / TAG GRONBERG
PART THREE New Identities
8. LOOKING LIKE A LESBIAN
Portraiture and Sexual Identity in 1920's Paris / TIRZA TRUE LATIMER
9. DJUNA BARNES
Looking Like a Lesbian/Poet / CAROLYN ALLEN
10. SINGULAR PLURAL
Collaborative Self-Images in Claude Cahun's Aveux non avenus / JENNIFER SHAW
11. "SOMETHING HIDDEN, SECRET, AND ETERNAL"
Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall, and the Lesbian Image in The Forge / JOE LUCCHESI
PART FOUR Embodying the Modern
12. MODERN DANCERS AND AFRICAN AMAZONS
Augusta Savage's Sculptures of Women, 1929-1930 / THERESA LEININGER-MILLER
13. LEE MILLER'S TWO BODIES / WHITNEY CHADWICK
14. "LE NUM��RO BARBETTE"
Photography and the Politics of Embodiment in Interwar Paris / AMY LYFORD
APPENDIX: The Napoleonic Civil Code of 1804
Bibliography 
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Whitney Chadwick is a professor of art at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including Woman Artists and the Surrealist Movement.

Tirza True Latimer lectures in art history at various San Francisco area institutions.