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Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s
Birgitte Søland
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Description for Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s
Hardback. Drawing on popular media and medical works as well as archival records and oral histories, this book examines how notions of femininity and womanhood were reshaped in Denmark, a small, largely agrarian country that remained neutral during the war. It explores changes in the female body and personality and the redefinition of female respectability. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Soland's exquisite social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader ... Read more
In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Soland's exquisite social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691049274
SKU
V9780691049274
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About Birgitte Søland
Birgitte Søland is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State University and coeditor of Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History.
Reviews for Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s
"In this short, clearly written book, Birgitte Soland examines how Danish women who came of age in the 1920s reshaped their female identities and gender relations so that they might lead what they regarded as 'modern' lives... Soland has produced an excellent account of [these] new lifestyles created by young Danish women in the 1920s."
Doris H. Linder, American Historical Review ... Read more
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