scholarly journals Domesticating Viragos. The Politics of Womanhood in the Romanian Legionary Movement

Fascism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Mihai Stelian Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Model ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
New Man ◽  
Mixed Features ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The New Woman

Building on the basic premise that the attempt to create a New Man was one of fascism’s master-ideas, this article focuses on the feminine underside of this program of political anthropogenesis. The article centers on the image of the New Woman and the politics of womanhood within the Romanian Legionary movement. It argues that the Legion’s trademark rhetoric of martial heroism and martyrdom led to an essential tension between a virile model of womanhood (patterned upon the masculine ideal type of the martyr-hero) and a more conservative domestic model. A third, reconciliatory hybrid model, which mixed features borrowed from the two antagonistic types of Legionary womanhood was eventually developed to defuse this tension.

The New Man and the New Woman

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
William A. Donohue
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
New Man ◽  
The New Woman

The New Man (But Not the New Woman)

Books Abroad ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 589
Author(s):  
Martha Paley Francescato
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
New Man ◽  
The New Woman

Yoga for the New Woman and the New Man: The Role of Pierre Bernard and Blanche DeVries in the Creation of Modern Postural Yoga

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Laycock
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
New Man ◽  
Country Club ◽  
The New Woman

AbstractPierre Bernard and his wife, Blanche DeVries, were among the earliest proponents of postural yoga in America. In 1924, they created the Clarkstown Country Club, where yoga was taught to affluent and influential clientele. The network created through this endeavor not only popularized yoga in the West but also advanced the reinvention of yoga as a science of health and well-being rather than as a religious practice.This article suggests that the pair's success in marketing yoga coincided with a shift in gender roles underway at the turn of the century. Economic and cultural changes led to the rise of a “New Woman” who was not only more financially independent but also more socially and sexually autonomous. At the same time, a crisis of masculinity led to the rise of the “New Man” as men sought out new cultural forms through which to restore their sense of manhood. Bernard's success depended largely on his ability to capitalize on the perceived “otherness” of yoga, presenting it as a resource for Americans seeking to construct new forms of gender identity. Bernard borrowed from the physical culture movement and presented yoga as an antidote to the emasculating effects of modern society. DeVries taught a combination of yoga and sensual Orientalist dances that offered women a form of sexual autonomy and embodied empowerment. By utilizing these strategies, Bernard and DeVries helped lay important foundations for modern postural yoga and its associations with athleticism, physical beauty, and sexuality.

scholarly journals The Passion for Educating the “New Man”: Debates about Preschooling in Soviet Russia, 1917–1925

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yordanka Valkanova
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
New Man ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Ideal

The Russian Revolution of February 1917 displaced the autocracy of the Romanov royal family and aimed to establish a liberal republican Russia. The Bolsheviks, who came to power a few months later in the revolution of October 1917, announced that their new policy in education “had no analogy in history.” Their reforms sought to establish a Marxist-based education system, in an attempt to raise new citizens for a new, communist society. Above all, the Bolsheviks regarded education as a means to engineer the ideal human being, the “new man” and the “new woman.”

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