| Description |
x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Becoming modern : young women and the reconstruction of womanhood in the 1920s / Birgitte Sland. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 3 -- Part I: From Victorian Ladies to Modern Girls: The Construction of a New Style in Femininity 19 -- Chapter l The Emergence of the Modern Look 22 -- Chapter 2 Fit for Modernity 46 -- Part II: The New Eve and the Old Adam? The Creation of Modern Gender Relations 65 -- Chapter 3 Good Girls and Bad Girls 69 -- Chapter 4 Beauties and Boyfriends, Bitches and Brutes 91 -- Part III: "A Great New Task ": The Modernization of Marriage and Domestic Life 113 -- Chapter 5 From Pragmatic Unions to Romantic Partnerships? 117 -- Chapter 6 "A Most Important Profession" 144 -- Conclusion 169 -- Notes 177 -- Select Bibliography 227 -- Index 247 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Women Denmark History 20th century, Sex role Denmark History 20th century, Feminism Denmark History 20th century |
| Summary |
"In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Soland's social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader social and economic changes."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-245) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Women -- Denmark -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex role -- Denmark -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism -- Denmark -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
00021053 |
| ISBN |
0691049270 |
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