The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization by Alys Eve Weinbaum, Mary Louise Roberts, Lynn M. Thomas, Timothy Burke, Madeleine Y. Dong, Liz Conor, The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Ruri Ito, Tani E. Barlow, Anne E. Gorsuch, Kathy Peiss, Barbara Sato, Uta G. Poiger, Miriam Silverberg, Priti Ramamurthy, Davarian L. Baldwin

The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Alys Eve Weinbaum, Mary Louise Roberts, Lynn M. Thomas, Timothy Burke, Madeleine Y. Dong, Liz Conor, The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Ruri Ito, Tani E. Barlow, Anne E. Gorsuch, Kathy Peiss, Barbara Sato, Uta G. Poiger, Miriam Silverberg, Priti Ramamurthy, Davarian L. Baldwin

448 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

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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 ...