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The Modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization / the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group ; Alys Eve Weinbaum ... [et al.] editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Next wave.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave : new directions in women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women.
- Girls.
- Girls in popular culture.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Women consumers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s.
- Contents:
- 1 The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation the modern girl around the world research group / Alys Eve Weinbaum ... [et al.]
- 2 The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style the modern girl around the world research group / Alys Eve Weinbaum ... [et al.]
- 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
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-404) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822389194
- 0822389193
- OCLC:
- 308677459
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