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Group The Modern Girl around the World Research |
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Titolo |
The Modern Girl Around the World [[electronic resource] ] : Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (449 p.) |
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Collana |
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Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WeinbaumAlys Eve |
ThomasLynn M |
RamamurthyPriti |
PoigerUta G |
DongMadeleine Yue |
BarlowTani E |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Young women - Social aspects |
Girls |
Girls in popular culture |
Consumption (Economics) |
Women consumers |
Gender & Ethnic Studies |
Social Sciences |
Gender Studies & Sexuality |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s. |
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