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Journal Article
Searching for the Modern Girl; Editors' Introduction
2022
Overview
With her bobbed hair, signature red lipstick, daring image, and modern lifestyle, the Modern Girl is an icon of the roaring twenties and dirty thirties. Nearly twenty years after that, the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group's ground-breaking 2008 book re-introduced the Modern Girl to a broader array of scholars worldwide. Ultimately, Stewart finds that the more radical incarnation of the Mulher Moderna who dominated Brazilian society and print media in the early twentieth century was debased over time by the male editors of O Cruzeiro, who reduced her to a mere fashion plate. If the nationalist agenda of O Cruzeiro suppressed images of and writing by politically active and racially diverse Modern Girls in favor of an icon of white bourgeois nationalism, in Canada-as Kathryn Franklin shows in her article in this issue-it was the consumeristic, bobbed-hair, fashion-savvy Modern Girl who was seen as an affront to traditional Canadian values.
