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The study of the Modern Girl exemplified by this groundbreaking collection and research project will reconfigure the ways we understand modernity, globalization, gender, and consumption. This book is sorely needed. --Caren Kaplan, co-editor of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State Rarely do collections offer both a compelling object of study and a sophisticated, portable method emanating out of concrete historical particulars. In doing so, the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group models collective feminist critique even as it illuminates new intellectual pathways and raises questions about the uneven terrain of the global and the analytical power of 'connective comparison' that will find interlocutors across an array of scholarly projects. --Antoinette Burton, author of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau This is a truly revelatory work of international scope. The authors' innovative collaborative method and their theory of 'multidirectional citation' provide exciting new points of departure for the global history of gender formation and of everything else besides. --Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University Heteronormativity is singularly unappealing as both ideology and a word. This collection of essays, charting the global emergence of the modern girl in the period 1920-1940, gives a number of reasons why this is also the case in practice...The contribution that this fascinating volume makes is not, however, confined to producing evidence about the many ways in which women have been encouraged to think of themselves (and their bodies) in terms of highly prescriptive aspirations. The various essays about particular countries, as well as the more general essays that open and conclude the volume, demonstrate that the relationship between modernity and women and femininity is not just important, but essential. Mary Evans, Times Higher Education, 11th June 2009

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Alys Eve Weinbaum is an Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington.

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