Modern women on trial: Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper

by Lucy Bland

Book Overview

Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719082641
• ISBN13: 9780719082641
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"