Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Diana Souhami\xa0talks about her new book\xa0No Modernism Without Lesbians,\xa0out 2020 with Head of Zeus books.\nA Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is the extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place \u2013 Paris, between the wars \u2013 fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own \u2013 forming a community around them in Paris. Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others, some of the most influential, most entertaining, most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age. Diana Souhami weaves together their stories to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-war Paris.\n Jana Byars\xa0is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies