Lucy Bland is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
...is an incisive and highly accomplished study of constructions of femininity and sexuality in war and post-war contexts. In the conclusion, Bland links issues arising out of early-twentieth-century trials and newspapers to gendered, sexual, national and racial discourses and identities, noting that the flapper 'represented not only newness, hedonism and anything goes , but also disruption, change and a frightening, uncertain future' (p218). This is an apt end to a meticulously constructed and highly stimulating work that will undoubtedly open new potential and areas for study across the arts and humanities. -- Jade Munslow Ong.