Lost girls : the invention of the flapper /

Lost girls : the invention of the flapper /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Simon, Linda, 1946- author.
Imprint:	London : Reaktion Books, 2017. ©2017
Description:	293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Teenage girls -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Teenage girls -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Young women -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Young women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Teenage girls. Young women. Great Britain. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11340942

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ISBN:	9781780238128 1780238126
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-285) and index.
Summary:	In the glorious, boozy party after the First World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the 'flapper'. Young, impetuous and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as this book argues, she didn't appear out of nowhere. This spirited history gives us a fresh look at the reality of young women's experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920s, when the 'modern' girl emerged.Lost Girls is a story of youth derided and fetishized; of ageing viscerally feared. It is a story of a culture beset by anxiety about adolescent girls. And it is a story of young women trying to shape their own identity amidst contradictory theories of adolescence and sexuality, the politics of suffrage, and popular fiction, theatre, cinema and dance hall crazes. Linda Simon shows us how the modern girl bravely created a culture, a look, and a future of her own. An illuminating history of the iconic flapper as she evolved from a problem to a temptation, and finally, in the 1920s and beyond, to an aspiration.

Table of Contents:

Angelfish
Daughters revolt
The happy boy
Private lives
Bodies in motion
A culture of their own
Votes for flappers
The age of the girl
The flapper paramount.