E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Gender in History
Bland Modern women on trial
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84779-896-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper
E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Gender in History
ISBN: 978-1-84779-896-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
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