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- Book Title
- Posing a Threat : Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s
- Publication Name
- Posing a Threat
- Title
- Posing a Threat
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 081956401X
- EAN
- 9780819564016
- ISBN
- 9780819564016
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Genre
- Design, History, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Women, Theater / General, United States / 20th Century, Theater / History & Criticism, Fashion & Accessories, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
- Release Date
- 28/05/2000
- Release Year
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 217 Pages
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A lively look at the ways in which American women in the 1920s transformed their lives through performance and fashion. New definitions of American femininity were formed in the pivotal 1920s, an era that vastly expanded the "market" for sexually explicit displays by women. Angela J. Latham shows how quarrels over and censorship of women's performance -- particularly in the arenas of fashion and theater -- uniquely reveal the cultural idiosyncracies of the period and provide valuable clues to the developing iconicity of the female body in its more recent historical phases. Through disguise, display, or judicious appropriation of both, performance became a crucial means by which women contested, affirmed, mitigated, and revolutionized norms of female self-presentation and self-stylization. Fashion was a hotly contested arena of bodily display. Latham surveys 1920s fashion trends and explores popular fashion rhetoric. Resistance to social mandates regarding women's fashion was nowhere more pronounced than in the matter of "bathing costumes." Latham critiques locally situated contests over swimwear, including those surrounding the first Miss America Pageant, and suggests how such performances sanctioned otherwise unacceptable self-presentations by women. Looking at American theater, Latham summarizes major arguments about censorship and the ideological assumptions embedded within them. Although sexually provocative displays by women were often the focus of censorship efforts, "leg shows," including revues like the Zeigfeld Follies, were in their heyday. Latham situates the popularity of such performances that featured women's bodies within the larger context of censorship in the American theater at this time.
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
081956401x
ISBN-13
9780819564016
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038600620
Product Key Features
Book Title
Posing a Threat : Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Theater / General, United States / 20th Century, Theater / History & Criticism, Fashion & Accessories, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Design, History, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
217 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq1420.L38 2000
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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"In her engaging analysis of women's dress in the 1920s, Angela Latham is the first analyst in recent times to address at any length the important issue of the meaning of the flapper for the United States. Drawing her information from conservative moralists, feminists, and men and women of the stage, Latham plumbs the age's agendas regarding women's clothing and their bodies."--Lois W. Banner, Professor, History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California ""In her engaging analysis of women's dress in the 1920s, Angela Latham is the first analyst in recent times to address at any length the important issue of the meaning of the flapper for the United States. Drawing her information from conservative moralists, feminists, and men and women of the stage, Latham plumbs the age's agendas regarding women's clothing and their bodies.""--Lois W. Banner, Professor, History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California ""Melding resources as diverse as newspaper reports, women's magazines, sermons, and theatrical reviews with sophisticated theoretical concepts, Angela Latham offers a lively and provocative analysis of women's ways of testing the boundaries of gender definitions during the Roaring Twenties.""--Kathleen J. Turner author of Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press, "In her engaging analysis of women's dress in the 1920s, Angela Latham is the first analyst in recent times to address at any length the important issue of the meaning of the flapper for the United States. Drawing her information from conservative moralists, feminists, and men and women of the stage, Latham plumbs the age's agendas regarding women's clothing and their bodies."--Lois W. Banner, Professor, History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Table of Content
Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Starting Points What We have Been Told Coming to Terms 2. Fashionable Discourse 1920's Fashion in Perspective Dame Fashion as Tyrant A High Price to Pay Fashion and Morality Fashion and Health Conclusions 3. Fashionable Display and the Problem of Bathing Costumes "Annette Kellermans": A Line in the Sand The Profitable Decency Dilemma Performed Resistance: The arrest of Louise Rosine Subversive Stories : Mae West Subversive Stories : "Mrs. Brown" Conclusions 4. The Right to Bare: Containing and Encoding American Women in the Popular Theater The Beauty Clause Clashing Contingencies: An Analysis of Leg Shows Chorus Girls: Legends in Their Own Time Decoding the Debates 5. The Transgressions of Ladies' Night Getting the Joke: An Analysis of Ladies' Night The Legal Censorship of Ladies' Night Conclusions Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
9945-000571
Dewey Decimal
305.4/0973/0904
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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