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The modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization
- Title
- The modern girl around the world : consumption, modernity, and globalization / the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group (Alys Eve Weinbaum [and others], editors).
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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- Description
- x, 435 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Next wave
- Uniform Title
- Next wave (Duke University Press)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-404) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation / Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong and Tani E. Barlow -- 2. The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style / Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong and Tani E. Barlow -- 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 -- Concluding Commentaries -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780822342991 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822342995 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822343059 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822343053 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008028481
- OCLC
- ocn209335347
- SCSB-5450410
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries