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Modern women on trial : sexual transgression in the age of the flapper / Lucy Bland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bland, Lucy, author.
- Series:
- Gender in history.
- Gender in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Trials.
- Female offenders--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Female offenders.
- Women--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Trials--Press coverage--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Women--Public opinion--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Modern Women on Trial' looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity.
- Contents:
- The case of the "cult of the clitoris" : treachery, patriotism and English womanhood
- Butterfly women, "Chinamen", dope fiends and metropolitan allure
- The tribulations of Edith Thompson : sexual incitement as a capital crime
- Mme Fahmy's vindication : orientalism, miscegenation fears and female fantasy
- "Hunnish scenes" and a "virgin birth" : the contested marriage and motherhood of a curious modern woman
- Afterlives.
- Notes:
- "Modern women on trial looks at the highly publicised, sensational trials of several young female protagonists in the period 1918-24. These cases, all presented by the press as morality tales involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion, are used as a prism through which to identify concerns about modern feminity."--Page [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 7, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781847798954
- 1847798950
- 9781847798961
- 1847798969
- OCLC:
- 911180229
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