The Modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization / the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group; Alys Eve Weinbaum ... [et al.] editors

Englisch

Durham, N.C : Duke University Press, 2008

Online-Ressource (x, 435 p) : ill

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-404) and index

Print version: The Modern Girl Around the World : Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation; 2. The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style; 3. From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the ''Re-creation'' of Race Womanhood, 1900-1935; 4. Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Éclaireuse; 5. The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa; 6. Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity

7. All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s8. The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl; 9. Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl?; 10. ''Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud'': Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity; 11. The ''Modern Girl'' Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s; 12. Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines; 13. Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s

14. Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi GermanyConcluding Commentaries; 15. Girls Lean Back Everywhere; 16. After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden; 17. The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

*Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects ; Girls ; Young women ; Girls in popular culture ; Electronic books ; Women consumers

*Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HQ1229

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 305.242/20904;

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

 

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2011

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