eBook

Girl Trouble

Dyhouse, Carol

2013,2014

Overview

A brilliant cultural history.' Irish Examiner Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news. In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to blame. Whether it be stories of 'brazen flappers' staying out and up all night in the 1920s, inappropriate places for Mars bars in the 1960s or Courtney Love's mere existence in the 1990s, bad girls have been a mass-media staple for more than a century. And yet, despite the continued obsession with their perceived faults and blatant disobedience, girls are infinitely better off today than they were a century ago. This is the story of the challenges and opportunities faced by young women growing up in the swirl of the twentieth century, and the pop-hysteria that continues to accompany their progress.

• Publisher: Zed Books,NBN International,Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
• Subject: Childhood, Education and Youth / Feminism / Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century / Gender & Sexuality Studies / History / Sexuality and Gender / Women in development / Young women / Young women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century / Young women -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• ISBN: 9781350220393, 1350220396, 178032555X, 9781780325552, 9781783601608, 1783601604, 9781780324937, 1780324936