bokomslag Modern Women on Trial
Historia

Modern Women on Trial

Lucy Bland

Inbunden

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  • 256 sidor
  • 2013
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history. -- .
  • Författare: Lucy Bland
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780719082634
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-09-30
  • Förlag: Manchester University Press