Book Review: Integrity. Stephen L. Carter,Harper Perennial,New York, 1996

Sociological Practice -     

Book Review: A Watched Pot: How We Experience Time. By Flaherty,Michael G. New York: New York University Press, 1999, 230 pages,paperback, ISBN: 0814726879

Qualitative Sociology -     

Book Review: Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea,by John Ehrenberg. New York University Press,New York and London, 1999

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations -     

Book Review: The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice,Immigrant Workers,and the High-Tech Global Economy. By Pellow,David Naguib,and Park,Lisa Sun-Hee. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 303 pages,paperback. ISBN: 0814767109

Qualitative Sociology -     

Book Review: Heroic Efforts: The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers. By Lois,Jennifer, New York: New York University Press, 2003. 233 pages. ISBN: 0814751849 (paperback); 0814751830 (cloth)

Qualitative Sociology -     

Fashionable Females: Women,Clothes, and Culture in New York

Abstract

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2010 ‘American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity’ exhibition explored the evolution of female fashion from 1890–1940, a period when the role of women in society developed rapidly. This article examines two of the cultural roles that fashion helped to define: the heiress figure of the 1890s, and the 1920s flapper. Both types of fashion identity had a distinctive look, such as the corseted waist and moulded silhouette of the 1890s dresses, and the shorter skirts and dropped waist of the later flapper fashions. Focusing on these two models of womanhood, the article explores the idea of fashion more generally in two novels that discuss these figures: the heiress in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and the flapper in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925).