The Modern Girl Around the World [[electronic resource] ] : Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

• Autore: Group The Modern Girl around the World Research
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.242/20904
• Soggetto topico: Young women - Social aspects; Girls; Girls in popular culture; Consumption (Economics); Women consumers; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Gender Studies & Sexuality
• Altri autori: WeinbaumAlys Eve ThomasLynn M RamamurthyPriti PoigerUta G DongMadeleine Yue BarlowTani E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Modern Girl Around the World
• ISBN: 0-8223-8919-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777991403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies