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

Book Overview

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 magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343053
• ISBN13: 9780822343059
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"