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The Modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization /
"During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Next wave (Duke University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon in the interwar period. Scholars of history, women's studies, literature, and cultural studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries."-- c Publisher description A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 435 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-404) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822389194 0822389193 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff. |