{"product_id":"modern-women-on-trial-sexual-transgression-in-the-age-of-the-flapper-gender-in-history-9780719082641","title":"Modern Women on Trial Sexual Transgression in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal, insightful and intriguing, Modern women on trial shows how public preoccupations and prejudices bear down on individual lives. Lucy Bland draws on a wide range of historical sources in interpreting the extraordinary evidence thrown up by a series of trials. Theoretically informed and beautifully narrated, this book breaks new ground in gender and in social history.\u003cbr\u003eSheila Rowbotham, author of 'Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century' (2010) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Bland is a brilliant historian of sexuality and culture. Here she applies her forensic skill, lucid intelligence and wit to modern pathologies of female desire unleashed from husband and home, as they seemed to unsettle both English manhood and national integrity itself.\u003cbr\u003eSally Alexander, Emeritus Professor of History, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Bland’s eagerly anticipated account of women’s experiences in the criminal courts of inter-war Britain has been well worth the wait. Unearthing a series of fascinating legal cases, she has produced a veritable page-turner. Bland brilliantly demonstrates how journalists and the judiciary attempted to shore up the boundaries – boundaries that World War One had weakened – separating the sexes, the classes and the races.\u003cbr\u003eAngus McLaren, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Victoria and author of Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain (2012)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lucy Bland has crafted a stunningly illuminating page-turner. Befitting 1920s protagonists so entranced by modernity and dance, she shrewdly choreographs five notorious British Jazz Age episodes of sexual transgression deeply into erotic and cultural contexts, which she reveals as at once angrily alienated and adaptively experimental. Riveting and indispensable.'\u003cbr\u003eJudith A. Allen, Professor of History, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We think we know all about the flapper of the 1920s with her shingled hair and sexual freedom. Lucy Bland’s new book wonderfully complicates that story by analyzing sensational trials of murder and misconduct, revealing racial, sexual and class tensions surrounding the New Woman. A sparkling read.'\u003cbr\u003eAnna Clark, author of Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe|...is an incisive and highly accomplished study of constructions of femininity and sexuality in war and post-war contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e, Jade Munslow Ong, New Formations, 7 January 2015|Bland’s masterfully written book surely will generate more debate about the messy, and sometimes violent, realities that too often accompany women’s pursuit of pleasure in any age. \u003cbr\u003e, Julie Anne Taddeo, University of Maryland, College Park, 26 January 2015|Lucy Bland’s book is a superb addition to Manchester’s admirable ‘Gender in History’ series. Her insightful work, in progressive articles and chapters on inter-war gender tensions, means that an international readership has eagerly awaited this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo many bookshelves need this book. It is a treat. And it is a shining gem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e, Judith A. Allen, Indiana University, Cultural and Social History, Vol 12 No 2, 1 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘It is an important addition to historiography on sexuality, and especially on gender and crime in the interwar period.’\u003cbr\u003eHistory Workshop Journal, Laura Schwartz, University of Warwick\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The case of the ‘Cult of the clitoris’: Treachery, patriotism and English womanhood \u003cbr\u003e2. Butterfly women, ‘Chinamen’, dope fiends and metropolitan allure \u003cbr\u003e3. The tribulations of Edith Thompson: Sexual incitement as a capital crime\u003cbr\u003e4. Mme Fahmy’s vindication: Orientalism, miscegenation fears and female fantasy \u003cbr\u003e5. ‘Hunnish scenes’ and a ‘Virgin birth’: The contested marriage and motherhood of a curious modern woman\u003cbr\u003eAfterlives\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037329981783,"sku":"9780719082641","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-women-on-trial-sexual-transgression-in-the-age-of-the-flapper-gender-in-history-9780719082641","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}