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Title The Modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization / the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group ; Alys Eve Weinbaum [and others] editors
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 435 pages) : illustrations
Series Next wave : new directions in women's studies
Next wave (Duke University Press)
Contents Modern girl as heuristic device : collaboration, connective comparison, multidirectional citation ; Modern girl around the world : cosmetics advertising and the politics of race and style / Modern Girl Around the World Research Group -- From the washtub to the world : Madam C.J. Walker and the "re-creation" of race womanhood, 1900-1935 / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Making the modern girl French : from new woman to éclaireuse / Mary Louise Roberts -- Modern girl and racial respectability in 1930s South Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Racial masquerade : consumption and contestation of American modernity / Alys Eve Weinbaum -- All-consuming nationalism : the Indian modern girl in the 1920s and 1930s / Priti Ramamurthy -- Dance class or the working class : the Soviet modern girl / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Who is afraid of the Chinese modern girl? / Madeleine Y. Dong -- "Blackfella missus too much proud" : techniques of appearing, femininity, and race in Australian modernity / Liz Conor -- "Modern girl" question in the periphery of empire : colonial modernity and mobility among Okinawan women in the 1920s and 1930s / Ruri Ito -- Contesting consumerisms in mass women's magazines / Barbara Sato -- Buying in : advertising and the sexy modern girl icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s / Tani E. Barlow -- Fantasies of universality? : neue Frauen, race, and nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Uta G. Poiger -- Girls lean back everywhere / Kathy Peiss -- After the Grand Tour : the modern girl, the new woman, and the colonial maiden / Miriam Silverberg -- Modern girl and commodity culture / Timothy Burke
Summary "During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon in the interwar period. Scholars of history, women's studies, literature, and cultural studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries."-- c Publisher description
A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-404) and index
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Subject Young women.
Girls.
Girls in popular culture.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
Women consumers.
Daughters.
daughters.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Daughters
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
Girls
Girls in popular culture
Women consumers
Young women
Moderne
Kulturvergleich
Frau
Form Electronic book
Author Weinbaum, Alys Eve, 1967-
Modern Girl Around the World Research Group.
LC no. 2008028481
ISBN 9780822389194
0822389193