Modern women on trial Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- Gender in History
- Author:
- Lucy Bland
- ISBN:
- 9781847798954
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781847798961, 9780719082641
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Pages:
- 256
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2024-11-01
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Copyright by:
- Lucy Bland
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies