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Lois W. Banner, Professor, History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
In her engaging analysis of women's dress in the 1920s . . . Latham plumbs the age's agendas regarding women's clothing and their bodies.

Kathleen J. Turner, author, Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press
Latham offers a lively and provocative analysis of women's ways of testing the boundaries of gender deninitions during the Roaring Twenties.

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