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By Lucy Bland

smooth girls on trial appears at a number of sensational trials regarding medicines, homicide, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion within the interval 1918–24. the rigors, all with younger lady defendants, have been awarded within the media as morality stories, caution of the risks of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The booklet scrutinises the pains and their assurance within the press to spot issues approximately smooth femininity. The flapper later turned heavily linked to the 'roaring' Nineteen Twenties, yet within the interval instantly after the good conflict she represented not just newness and hedonism, but additionally a daunting, doubtful destiny. This determine of the fashionable lady used to be a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties approximately modernity, and instabilities of gender, classification, race and nationwide identification. This available, greatly researched publication should be of curiosity to all these attracted to social, cultural or gender history.

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