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Aalborg
Adolescence
Adornment
Adult
Andersen
Author_Birgitte Soland
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Clothing
Consideration
Copenhagen County
Courtesy
Courtship
Criticism
Department store
Determination
Domestic worker
Economic development
Egalitarianism
Embarrassment
Entertainment
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Etiquette
Female education
Femininity
Feminism
Feminist movement
Foray
Gender role
Hairstyle
Heteronormativity
Household
Housewife
Ideology
Income
Indication (medicine)
Interpersonal relationship
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Langelinie
Legislation
Leisure
Marriage
Modern girl
Modernity
Mother
Newspaper
Northern Jutland
Oral history
Physical education
Physical exercise
Physician
Police
Politician
Politics
Popularity
Profession
Prostitution
Psychologist
Romance (love)
Self-confidence
Sexual desire
Sexual revolution
Short hair
Skirt
Socialization
Spouse
Suffrage
The Other Hand
Unemployment
Women's suffrage
Workforce
Working class
World War I
Youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780691049274
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Soland's exquisite social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader social and economic changes. Soland's engrossing chronicle draws on a rich variety of sources--including popular media and medical works as well as archival records and oral histories--to examine how notions of femininity and womanhood were reshaped in Denmark, a small, largely agrarian country that remained neutral during the war.
It explores changes in the female body and personality, the forays of young women into the public sphere, the redefinition of female respectability, and new understandings of married life as evidenced in both cultural discourses and social practices. Though specific in its focus, the book raises broad comparative questions as it challenges common assumptions about the social and sexual upheavals that characterized the Western world in the postwar decade. In a remarkably engaging fashion, it shows why the end of World War I did not lead to the return of "normal" life in the 1920s.
Birgitte Søland is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State University and coeditor of Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History.
