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9780822342991

The Modern Girl Around The World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822342991

  • ISBN10:

    0822342995

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"This is a truly revelatory work of international scope. The authors' innovative collaborative method and their theory of 'multidirectional citation' provide exciting new points of departure for the global history of gender formation and of everything else besides."--Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University

Table of Contents

The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation
The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style
From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the "Re-creation" of Race Womanhood, 1900-1935
Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Eclaireuse
The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa
Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity
All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s
The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl
Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl?
"Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud": Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity
The "Modern Girl" Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s
Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines
Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s
Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Concluding Commentaries
Girls Lean Back Everywhere
After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden
The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture
Bibliography
Index
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