Table of Contents

Introduction 1. White slavery and the seduction of innocents 2. Unwomanly types: New Women, revolting daughters and rebel girls 3. Brazen flappers, bright young things and 'Miss Modern' 4. Good-time girls, baby dolls and teenage brides 5. Coming of age in the 1960s: beat girls and dolly birds 6. Taking liberties: panic over permissiveness and women's liberation 7. Body anxieties, depressives, ladettes and living dolls: what happened to girl power? 8. Looking back

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From flappers and beat girls to dolly birds and ladettes, this is the story of the 20th Century's 'bad girls' and the controversy that has accompanied their growing freedom.

About the Author

Carol Dyhouse is a social historian and currently a research professor of history at the University of Sussex. Her acclaimed book Glamour: Women, History, Feminism was published by Zed Books in 2010. Longer-term, her research has focused on gender, education and the pattern of women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her books include Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England; Feminism and the Family in England, 1890-1939; No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939; and Students: A Gendered History.

Reviews

A useful history of girls growing up in Britain in the 20th century [and] a sane account of the realities behind the scaremongering about young women growing up in 20th-century Britain.
*Guardian*