The Modern Girl Around the World

Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
Herausgeber: The Modern Girl Around the World Research Group; Barlow, Tani; Dong, Madeleine Yue; Poiger, Uta G; Ramamurthy, Priti; Thomas, Lynn M; Weinbaum, Alys Eve

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342991
• ISBN-10: 0822342995
• Artikelnr.: 23881411

Autorenporträt

Alys Eve Weinbaum is an Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective
Comparison, Multidirectional Citation / The Modern Girl Around the World
Research Group (Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G.
Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong, and Tani E. Barlow) 1
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, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y.
Dong, and Tani E. Barlow) 25
3. From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the "Re-creation"
of Race Womanhood, 1900-1935 / Davarian L. Baldwin 55
4. Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Éclaireuse / Mary
Louise Roberts 77
5. The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa / Lynn
M. Thomas 96
6. Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity /
Alys Eve Weinbaum 120
7. All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s
/ Priti Ramamurthy 147
8. The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl / Anne E.
Gorsuch 174
9. Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl? / Madeleine Y. Dong 194
10. "Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud": Techniques of Appearing,
Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity / Liz Conor 220
11. The "Modern Girl" Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial
Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s / Ruri
Ito 240
12. Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines / Barbara Sato 263
13. Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the
1920s and 1930s / Tani E. Barlow 288
14. Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimer and
Nazi Germany / Uta G. Poiger 317
Concluding Commentaries
15. Girls Lean Back Everywhere / Kathy Peiss 347
16. After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial
Maiden / Miriam Silverberg 354
17. The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture / Timothy Burke 362
Bibliography 371
Contributors 405
Index 409