Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
Contents
1. Starting points -- What we have been told -- Coming to terms -- 2. Fashionable discourse -- 1920s fashion in perspective -- Dame Fashion as tyrant -- A high price to pay -- Fashion and morality -- Fashion and health -- Conclusions -- pt. 3. Fashionable display and the problem of bathing costumes -- "Annette Kellermans" : a line in the sand -- The profitable decency dilemma -- Performed resistance : the arrest of Louise Rosine -- Subversive stories I : Mae West -- Subversive stories II : "Mrs. Brown" -- Conclusions -- 4. The right to bare : containing and encoding American women in the popular theater -- The beauty clause -- Clashing contingencies : an analysis of leg shows -- Chorus girls : legends in their own time -- Decoding the debates -- pt. 5. The transgressions of ladies' night -- Getting the joke : an analysis of Ladies' night -- The legal censorship of Ladies' night -- Conclusions.
