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

• Pubblicazione: Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.242/20904
• Soggetto topico: Young women; Girls; Girls in popular culture; Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects; Women consumers
• Altri autori: WeinbaumAlys Eve <1967->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-404) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation the modern girl around the world research group / Alys Eve Weinbaum ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 3 From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the "Re-creation" of Race Womanhood, 1900-1935 / Davarian L. Baldwin -- 4 Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Eclaireuse Mary Louise Roberts -- 5 The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- 6 Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity / Alys Eve Weinbaum -- 7 All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s / Priti Ramamurthy -- 8 The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl / Anne E. Gorsuch -- 9 Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl? / Madeleine Y. Dong -- ; 10 "Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud": Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity / Liz Conor -- 11 The "Modern Girl" Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s / Ruri Ito -- 12 Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines / Barbara Sato -- 13 Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s / Tani E. Barlow -- 14 Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Uta G. Poiger -- 15 Girls Lean Back Everywhere / Kathy Peiss -- 16 After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden / Miriam Silverberg -- 17 The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture / Timothy Burke.
• 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.: 9910815729503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Next wave.; e-Duke books scholarly collection.