124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Competing Notions of Modern Womanhood in Twentieth-Century Lebanon, Egypt, and Cuba

Competing Notions of Modern Womanhood in Twentieth-Century Lebanon, Egypt, and Cuba

AHA Session 66

Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Elizabeth Ballroom G (Hyatt)

Chair:

Lynn M. Thomas, University of Washington Seattle

Papers:

Militants, Misfits, or Miscreants? Education for Modern Womanhood in Mandate Lebanon
Nadya Sbaiti, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College

A Modern Girl's Cautionary Tale: Asmahan, Morality, and the Mass Media in Liberal Egypt
Shaun Lopez, University of Washington Seattle

Pushing the Bounds of Acceptability: Representations of the Modern Girl within Cuban Popular Culture, 1919–29
Lizabeth Martínez Lotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gendered Postage: Philatelic Imagery and the Creation of the “New” Modern Woman in Revolutionary Cuba, 1930–80
John Gustavsen, University of Miami

Comment:

Lynn M. Thomas, University of Washington Seattle

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