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149. The Modern Girl around the World—A Roundtable

Sunday, January 9, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 608

  • Chair: Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington Seattle

  • Topics: Advertising the Modern Girl: Focus Group and Social Survey Research in 1920s and 1930s Treaty Port China
    Tani E. Barlow, University of Washington Seattle

    The Modern Girl and Racial Masquerade
    Alys Eve Weinbaum, University of Washington Seattle

    The Chinese Modern Girl as Spectacle and Caricature
    Madeleine Yue Dong, University of Washington Seattle

    The Elusive Modern Girl and Indian Feminist Historiography
    Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington Seattle

    The German 'Neue Frau' between “East” and “West”
    Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington Seattle

    Tracing the Transnational Routes of Commodity and Racial Regimes: The Modern Girl's Use of Skin Lighteners in Postcolonial Kenya and Apartheid South Africa
    Lynn M. Thomas, University of Washington Seattle

  • Comment: Miriam Silverberg, University of California at Los Angeles
   
     
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