The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

Published by Duke University Press 2008

The Modern Girl Around the World

Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

Edited by: Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group , Alys Eve Weinbaum , Lynn M. Thomas , Priti Ramamurthy , Uta G. Poiger , Madeleine Yue Dong and Tani Barlow

In the series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389194

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About this book

A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s.

Author / Editor information

Alys Eve Weinbaum is an Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington.

Reviews

“Rarely do collections offer both a compelling object of study and a sophisticated, portable method emanating out of concrete historical particulars. In doing so, the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group models collective feminist critique even as it illuminates new intellectual pathways and raises questions about the uneven terrain of the global and the analytical power of ‘connective comparison’ that will find interlocutors across an array of scholarly projects.”—Antoinette Burton, author of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

“The study of the Modern Girl exemplified by this groundbreaking collection and research project will reconfigure the ways we understand modernity, globalization, gender, and consumption. This book is sorely needed.”—Caren Kaplan, co-editor of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the ‘‘Re-creation’’ of Race Womanhood, 1900–1935 davarian baldwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Éclaireuse mary roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa lynn thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity alys weinbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s priti ramamurthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl anne gorsuch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl? madeleine dong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
‘‘Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud’’: Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity liz conor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
The ‘‘Modern Girl’’ Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s ruri ito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women’s Magazines barbara sato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s tani barlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany uta poiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
concluding commentaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Girls Lean Back Everywhere kathy peiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden miriam silverberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture timothy burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 448
Illustrations
- Other: 132 illustrations

eBook

Published: December 24, 2008
ISBN: 9780822389194