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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Modern girl around the world. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008 (OCoLC)679376253 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alys Eve Weinbaum; Modern Girl Around the World Research Group.; et al |
| ISBN: | 0822342995 9780822342991 0822343053 9780822343059 |
| OCLC Number: | 209335347 |
| Description: | x, 435 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Modern girl as heuristic device : collaboration, connective comparison, multidirectional citation ; Modern girl around the world : cosmetics advertising and the politics of race and style / Modern Girl Around the World Research Group -- From the washtub to the world : Madam C.J. Walker and the "re-creation" of race womanhood, 1900-1935 / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Making the modern girl French : from new woman to éclaireuse / Mary Louise Roberts -- Modern girl and racial respectability in 1930s South Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Racial masquerade : consumption and contestation of American modernity / Alys Eve Weinbaum -- All-consuming nationalism : the Indian modern girl in the 1920s and 1930s / Priti Ramamurthy -- Dance class or the working class : the Soviet modern girl / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Who is afraid of the Chinese modern girl? / Madeleine Y. Dong -- "Blackfella missus too much proud" : techniques of appearing, femininity, and race in Australian modernity / Liz Conor -- "Modern girl" question in the periphery of empire : colonial modernity and mobility among Okinawan women in the 1920s and 1930s / Ruri Ito -- Contesting consumerisms in mass women's magazines / Barbara Sato -- Buying in : advertising and the sexy modern girl icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s / Tani E. Barlow -- Fantasies of universality? : neue Frauen, race, and nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Uta G. Poiger -- Girls lean back everywhere / Kathy Peiss -- After the Grand Tour : the modern girl, the new woman, and the colonial maiden / Miriam Silverberg -- Modern girl and commodity culture / Timothy Burke. |
| Series Title: | Next wave. |
| Responsibility: | the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group (Alys Eve Weinbaum ... [et al.], editors). |
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