| Description |
x, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Next wave |
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Next wave (Duke University Press)
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| Contents |
1. The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation / Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong and Tani E. Barlow -- 2. The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style / Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong and Tani E. Barlow -- 3. From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the "Re-creation" of Race Womanhood, 1900-1935 / Davarian L. Baldwin -- 4. Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Eclaireuse / Mary Louise Roberts -- 5. The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- 6. Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity / Alys Eve Weinbaum -- 7. All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s / Priti Ramamurthy -- 8. The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl / Anne E. Gorsuch -- 9. Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl? / Madeleine Y. Dong -- 10. "Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud": Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity / Liz Conor -- 11. The "Modern Girl" Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s / Ruri Ito -- 12. Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines / Barbara Sato -- 13. Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s / Tani E. Barlow -- 14. Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Uta G. Poiger -- Concluding Commentaries -- 15. Girls Lean Back Everywhere / Kathy Peiss -- 16. After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden / Miriam Silverberg -- 17. The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture / Timothy Burke |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-404) and index |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
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Girls in popular culture.
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Women consumers.
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Girls.
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Women consumersf
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Young women.
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| Author |
Weinbaum, Alys Eve, 1967-
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Modern Girl Around the World Research Group.
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| LC no. |
2008028481 |
| ISBN |
0822342995 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822343053 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780822342991 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822343059 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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