Woman and Modernity

Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salom have in large part neglected to offera sustained investigation of the literariness of Salom's texts and of Salom as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in Salom's writings, such as her exchanges with Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rilke, Freud, and late nineteenth-century middle-class German feminists such as Dohm and Stucker, Martin approaches Salom's life and work as a series of strategic negotiations concerning the place of women and the meaning of femininity.