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Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: 'Flash of fire' -- 1. Fremantle Flapper -- 2. 'I see blood between you!' -- 3. ' ... to keep her own counsel' -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Prologue: On Flappers and Their Philosophers -- Act I: Beauty. In the Library, Jersey, the Channel Islands, 1880 -- A Gentleman's Wife -- In Sickness and in Health -- Marry the Life, Not the Man -- Under Foreign Skies -- Act II: Glamour. …”

Table of Contents: “…The new type of athletic girl -- Grass-roots growth and sexual sensation in the flapper era -- Games of strife: the battle over women's competitive sport -- Order of the court: the campaign to suppress women's basketball -- "Cinderallas" of sport: Black women in track and field -- No freaks, no Amazons, no boyish bobs: the All-American Girls Baseball League -- Beauty and the butch: the "mannish" athlete and the lesbian threat -- "Play it, don't say it": lesbian identity and community in women's sports -- Women competing/gender contested -- You've come a long way, maybe: a 'revolution' in women's sport?…”

Table of Contents: “…De Berjeois -- The international marriage market and the sphere of social reproduction: A German case study / Suzanne Sinke with Stephen Gross -- Catholic sisterhoods and the immigrant church / Deirdre Mageean -- Ideology, ethnicity, and the gendered subject: Reading immigrant women's autobiographies / Betty Bergland -- Picture brides: Feminist analysis of life histories of Hawai'i's early immigrant women from Japan, Okinawa, and Korea / Alice Yun Chai -- The flapper and the chaperone: Historical memory among Mexican-American women / Vicki L. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Dressing for middle age: "don't try to make me look like a flapper" -- Democracy and dress: "'the American girl, ' the world's highest achievement" -- Conclusion: The costume side: "the small rest!…”

Table of Contents: “…"A family of pooh-bahs": Shaw's Irish origins -- The family skeletons -- Growing up in Dublin -- The Townshend connections -- Self-searching: London and the novels -- A Fabian Don Juan -- Rival attractions -- "The coming man": Critic and "Platform spellbinder" -- On stage -- A taste of success -- Wars of the theaters, mothers and bicycles -- An Irish courtship -- Marriage -- New century, "new religion" -- Eternal Irishman -- Edwardian summers -- Votes for women -- Enter critics, stage right -- A love affair, a death, and a triumph -- Armageddon and the "ruthless light of laughter" -- Sages, saints, and flappers -- The road to Baveno: dangerous flirtations -- World traveler and village squire -- Last flourishes and the call of the silver screen -- "A man all light": last years.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, consumer culture, and the rise of "body shaping" / Heather Addison -- Flirting with Kathlyn: creating the mass audience / Barbara Wilinsky -- The Hollywood flapper and the culture of media consumption / Sara Ross -- Hollywood in the 1920s: youth must be served / Cynthia Felando -- Hollywood exoticism: cosmetics and color in the 1930s / Sarah Berry -- From apocalypse to appliances: postwar anxiety and modern convenience in Forbidden planet / Rick Worland and David Slayden -- "Chi-Chi Cinderella": Audrey Hepburn as couture countermodel / Gaylyn Studlar -- Sharon Stone in a Gap turtleneck / Rebecca L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Louis, 27 May 1916 -- The Flapper's Progress -- Shanghai Grand -- Mickey Checks In -- On the Shanghai Beat -- Part 3 -- Shanghai, April 12, 1935 -- Cathay and the Muse -- The Fantastic Mr. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prologue -- Not So Innocent: Controversy and Censorship in the Silent Era -- Why Be Good? Flappers, Flaming Youth and an "It" Girl -- Pre-Code, Post-Code and Non-Code: Before and After the Moral Crackdown of the 1930s -- Something for the Boys: Pin-Ups and Love Goddesses of the -- World War II Era -- "She came at me in sections": Women in Postwar Genre Movies -- "Looking for trouble": Howard Hughes vs. the Production Code -- (Again) -- Hollywood Or Bust: Fifties Blondes and "Mammary Madness" -- "Banned by Cardinal Spellman": Baby Doll and Southern -- Decadence -- Bikini Beach: From the Fifties to the Sixties -- The Nude Scene: Children Under 17 Not Admitted -- Blue Movie: Coming to a Theater Near You-Pornography -- Girls Trip: The End of the Double Standard? …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- Boys-R-Us: Board Games and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls / Jennifer Scanlon. -- The Flapper and the Chaperone: Cultural Constructions of Identity and Heterosexual Politics among Adolescent Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- III. Flappers and Philosophers -- Isabelle and Babes in the Woods / F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Gaines -- Reevaluating footnotes: women directors of the silent era / Radha Vatsal -- The gender of empire: American modernity, masculinity, and Edison's war actualities / Kristen Whissel -- Making ends meet: "welfare films" and the politics of consumption during the progressive era / Constance Balides -- Irma vep, vamp in the city: mapping the criminal feminine in early French serials / Kristine J. Butler -- The flapper film: comedy, dance, and jazz age kinaesthetics / Lori Landay -- The queer career of Jim Crow: racial and sexual transformation in a Florida enchantment / Siobhan B. …”

Table of Contents: “…and My Antonia -- The tomboy shifts from feminist to flapper : Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula -- The tomboy turns freakishly queer and queerly freakish : Carson McCullers's The member of the wedding -- The tomboy becomes the "odd girl out" : Ann Bannon's Women in the shadows -- The tomboy returns to Hollywood : Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper moon -- Epilogue: The tomboy finally "comes into the light" : transformations to white feminism, the emergence of whiteness studies and the end of racialized white tomboyism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Setting public policy on drugs: a choice of social values / Line Beauchesne -- 'Unmaking manly smokes': church, state, governance, and the first anti-smoking campaigns in Montreal, 1892-1914 / Jarrett Rudy -- From flapper to sophisticate: Canadian women university students as smokers, 1920-60 / Sharon Anne Cook -- 'Their medley of tongues and eternal jangle': liquor control and ethnicity in Ontario, 1927-44 / Dan Malleck -- Becoming a 'hype': drug laws, subculture formation, and resistance in Canada, 1945-61 / Catherine Carstairs -- 'Just say know': criminalizing LSD and the politics of psychedelic expertise, 1961-8 / Erika Dyck -- Setting boundaries: LSD use and glue sniffing in Ontario in the 1960s / Marcel Martel -- From beverage to drug: alcohol and other drugs in 1960s and 1970s Canada / Greg Marquis -- Considering the revolving door: the inevitability of addiction treatment in the criminal justice system / Dawn Moore -- Biopolitics, geopolitics, and the regulation of club drugs in Canada / Kyle Grayson -- Afterword: a personal reflection on the law and illicit-drug use / Alan Young.…”
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