Modern women on trial : Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper /

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"Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bland, Lucy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Annees 1920.
Morale sexuelle > Angleterre (GB) > 20e siecle.
Crimes sexuels > Proces > Angleterre (GB) > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Proces > Angleterre (GB) > 20e siecle.
Women > Social life and customs.
Women.
Sex role.
Sex customs.
Popular culture.
Crime.
Nineteen twenties.
Trials (Sex crimes)
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
HISTORY > Social History.
Annees vingt (Vingtieme siecle)
Culture populaire > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie sexuelle > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Proces (Crimes sexuels) > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Popular culture > England > History > 20th century.
Women > England > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Sex role > England > History > 20th century.
Sex customs > England > History > 20th century.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History > 20th century.
Trials (Sex crimes) > England > History > 20th century.
Great Britain.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The case of the "cult of the clitoris" : treachery, patriotism and English womanhood
  • Butterfly women, "Chinamen", dope fiends and metropolitan allure
  • The tribulations of Edith Thompson : sexual incitement as a capital crime
  • Mme Fahmy's vindication : orientalism, miscegenation fears and female fantasy
  • "Hunnish scenes" and a "virgin birth" : the contested marriage and motherhood of a curious modern woman
  • Afterlives.

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