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Author Tossounian, Cecilia, author.

Title La joven moderna in interwar Argentina : gender, nation, and popular culture / Cecilia Tossounian
Published Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 172 pages)
Series Florida scholarship online
Florida scholarship online
Contents Building a modern nation -- The flapper and The Joven Moderna -- The modern working girl -- Forging a healthy and beautiful body -- Embodying the nation
Summary In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of "la joven moderna"--The modern girl--helped shape Argentina's emerging national identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020)
Subject Feminism -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Young women -- Argentina -- Conduct of life
Women -- Argentina -- Conduct of life
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Feminism
Women -- Conduct of life
Young women -- Conduct of life
Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019022226
ISBN 9781683401254
1683401255
9781683401421
1683401425