Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation 1
5. The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style 25
6. From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the ‘‘Re-creation’’ of Race Womanhood, 1900–1935 55
7. Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Éclaireuse 77
8. The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa 96
9. Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity 120
10. All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s 147
11. The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl 174
12. Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl? 194
13. ‘‘Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud’’: Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity 220
14. The ‘‘Modern Girl’’ Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s 240
15. Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women’s Magazines 263
16. Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s 288
17. Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany 317
18. concluding commentaries 345
19. Girls Lean Back Everywhere 347
20. After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden 354
21. The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture 362
22. Bibliography 371
23. Contributors 405
24. Index 409