La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina - by Cecilia Tossounian Hardcover

About the Book

In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna--the modern girl--helped shape Argentina's emerging national identity.

Book Synopsis

In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna-the modern girl-helped shape Argentina's emerging national identity.

Review Quotes

"Makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the interwar years in Argentina. . . . Tossounian effectively displays how gender, popular culture, and consumption were at the center of social, political, and cultural debates on Argentine national identity from the 1920s to the early 1940s."--The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

"Tossounian, by dealing with changing gender practices and representations, female work and consumption, feminism, mass culture, and nationalism, speaks to scholars of interwar-period social and cultural history in Argentina and elsewhere. . . . Raises thought-provoking questions about how state-sponsored cultural policies and images of the nation intertwined with mass-produced representations of the culture industry."--Hispanic American Historical Review

"Tossounian's work should be read alongside those of other prominent scholars of gender and nationalism in Argentina."--Bulletin of Spanish Studies