Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081956401X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Turner, author, Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press. Banner, Professor, History and Gender Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaLatham offers a lively and provocative analysis of women's ways of testing the boundaries of gender deninitions during the Roaring Twenties. In her engaging analysis of women's dress in the 1920s Latham plumbs the age's agendas regarding women's clothing and their bodies. -- Kathleen J. -- Lois W
Latham surveys 1920s fashion trends and explores popular fashion rhetoric. Latham situates the popularity of such performances that featured women's bodies within the larger context of censorship in the American theater at this time.. Latham shows how quarrels over and censorship of women's performance -- particularly in the arenas of fashion and theater -- uniquely reveal the cultural idiosyncracies of the period and provide valuable clues to the developing iconicity of the female body in its more recent historical phases.Through disguise, display, or judicious appropriation of both, performance became a crucial means by which women contested, affirmed, mitigated, and revolutionized norms of female self-presentation and self-stylization. New definitions of American femininity were formed in the pivotal 1920s, an era that vastly expanded the "mark
The American culture in transition: Flappers and Gibson Girls of 1920s This book is partly historical in nature that discusses as how the women in 1920s redefined sexuality and feminist movement. The expression of sexuality and nakedness as flapper girls on Broadway and Hollywood movies of 1920s paved the way for women's revolution; for e. An interesting look at life for women in the 1920s. V. Richmond The author's basic premise is that in the 1920s, women used display to resist, while at times seeming to conform to, those who would have squeezed them into the molds of how society would have them appear. In the first few chapters, she does a good job of this. Especia. Great cover and Illustrations but too academic This book reads like a dissertation. It's a great topic, and the cover and title promise much more than it delivers. I strongly suspect this was the author's dissertation project. That's fine because it's well-researched, and the author definitely is an expert on women