Girl Trouble

Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

AvProfessor Carol Dyhouse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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'A brilliant cultural history.'Irish ExaminerGirls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to blame. Whether it be stories of 'brazen flappers' staying out and up all night in the 1920s, inappropriate places for Mars bars in the 1960s or Courtney Love's mere existence in the 1990s, bad girls have been a mass-media staple for more than a century. And yet, despite the continued obsession with their perceived faults and blatant disobedience, girls are infinitely better off today than they were a century ago.This is the story of the challenges and opportunities faced by young women growing up in the swirl of the twentieth century, and the pop-hysteria that continues to accompany their progress.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-14
Mått:143 x 222 x 23 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:322
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780324944

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Carol Dyhouse is a social historian and currently a research professor of history at the University of Sussex. Her acclaimed book Glamour: Women, History, Feminism was published by Zed Books in 2010. Longer-term, her research has focused on gender, education and the pattern of women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her books include Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England; Feminism and the Family in England, 1890-1939; No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939; and Students: A Gendered History.

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'Girl Trouble offers readers an accessible and beautifully written history of adolescent girls and young women from the late Victorian era to Cameron's twenty-first-century Britain. Balancing animated accounts of girls' adventures on the cultural scene with sober analyses of the "moral panics" they caused, Carol Dyhouse has written a thought-provoking book so brimming with stories and insights that it is practically impossible to put down.

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Introduction 1. White slavery and the seduction of innocents 2. Unwomanly types: New Women, revolting daughters and rebel girls 3. Brazen flappers, bright young things and 'Miss Modern' 4. Good-time girls, baby dolls and teenage brides 5. Coming of age in the 1960s: beat girls and dolly birds 6. Taking liberties: panic over permissiveness and women's liberation 7. Body anxieties, depressives, ladettes and living dolls: what happened to girl power? 8. Looking back