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Manchester University Press Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper (Gender in History)

Name: Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper (Gender in History)
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Product Description 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. Review Original, insightful and intriguing, Modern women on trial shows how public preoccupations and prejudices bear down on individual lives. Lucy Bland draws on a wide range of historical sources in interpreting the extraordinary evidence thrown up by a series of trials. Theoretically informed and beautifully narrated, this book breaks new ground in gender and in social history. Sheila Rowbotham, author of 'Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century' (2010) Lucy Bland is a brilliant historian of sexuality and culture. Here she applies her forensic skill, lucid intelligence and wit to modern pathologies of female desire unleashed from husband and home, as they seemed to unsettle both English manhood and national integrity itself. Sally Alexander, Emeritus Professor of History, Goldsmiths, University of London Lucy Bland's eagerly anticipated account of women's experiences in the criminal courts of inter-war Britain has been well worth the wait. Unearthing a series of fascinating legal cases, she has produced a veritable page-turner. Bland brilliantly demonstrates how journalists and the judiciary attempted to shore up the boundaries - boundaries that World War One had weakened - separating the sexes, the classes and the races. Angus McLaren, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Victoria and author of Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain (2012) --. About the Author Lucy Bland is Research Fellow in History at Anglia Ruskin University

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Brand: Manchester University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0719082633
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2013
Listed Since: 27 April 2013

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