Lucy Bland

Modern women on trial (eBook, ePUB)

Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847798954
• Artikelnr.: 44055030

Autorenporträt

Lucy Bland is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The case of the 'Cult of the clitoris': Treachery,
patriotism and English womanhood 2. Butterfly women, 'Chinamen', dope
fiends and metropolitan allure 3. The tribulations of Edith Thompson:
Sexual incitement as a capital crime 4. Mme Fahmy's vindication:
Orientalism, miscegenation fears and female fantasy 5. 'Hunnish scenes' and
a 'Virgin birth': The contested marriage and motherhood of a curious modern
woman Afterlives Bibliography Index