Søland, B: Becoming Modern - Young Women and the Reconstruct

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Søland, B: Becoming Modern - Young Women and the Reconstruct

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O knihe

"Birgitte Soland addresses longstanding questions in the history of women and gender in the industrialized world: What was 'modernity, ' and how did it change the practice of everyday life? Soland spells out her answers through the words of Danish women who forged new styles and new ideals that challenged tradition without overthrowing the hierarchies of gender. The book is carefully researched, clearly argued, and crisply written."--Joanne Meyerowitz, Indiana University

""Becoming Modern" is a most impressive exploration of the large issues of modernity, consumer culture, leisure, the body, and sexuality in the context of a small country. Birgitte Soland deftly reconstructs the revolt of women coming of age in 1920s Denmark. Refusing to privilege either cultural discourse or social experience, Soland's richly textured analysis explores the complex ways in which discourse constructed the modern girl/woman and young women, in turn, shaped debates around gender. "Becoming Modern" is both essential and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in gender and modernity."--Mary Nolan, New York University

"This unique study of women in twentieth-century Denmark contributes to the field of women's history-and the specific area of gender and modernity-in multiple ways. It examines the process of modernization throughout women's life cycle, focusing on both young single and older married women. As one of the few full-length English-language historical studies of Scandinavian women, it is essential to the current project of women's history, which is becoming increasingly internationalized and comparative."--Sonya A. Michel, author of "Children's Interests / Mother's Rights: The Shaping ofAmerica's Child Care Policy"

"This is a significant contribution to European, social, gender, and cultural history because it chronicles the modernity of everyday life and challenges the dominant interpretations of interwar struggles over gender as grounded in the experience of