Modern Women on Trial

Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper

Lucy Bland, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield , Lynn Abrams

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English

Manchester University Press
01 October 2013

Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women; Crime & criminology

Series: Gender in History

Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history. -- .

By: Lucy Bland
Series edited by: Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9780719082641
ISBN 10: 0719082641
Series: Gender in History
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper

...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.