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Gerald N. Izenberg. Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky through World War I . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 257. $35.50.

Within the ever-expanding field of gender studies, the Man Question (represented, in particular, by the supposed fin-de-siècle crisis of masculinity) now receives a great deal of attention. Gerald N. Izenberg laments that rather than explain this crisis, scholars often use it simply as an explanation of the misogyny or homophobia that characterized such thinkers as Otto Weininger. Izenberg contends that although modernist artists and intellectuals rarely, if ever, managed to rise completely above conventional anxieties about active, intellectual, liberated women, straightforward misogyny was not the typical modernist response to the New Woman. Many modernist artists, he emphasizes, regarded femininity as the supreme creative force: far from being misogynistic, the male modernist artist aimed to incorporate woman's creative power and thereby attain "godlike wholeness" (p. 17). . . .

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