Flappers and the Jazz Age

Eileen Hogan is Lecturer in Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.Louise Ryan is Senior Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Metropolitan University.

• Introduction: ‘The jazz spirit’: Women and leisure on the island of Ireland in the 1920-30s – Eileen Hogan and Louise Ryan 1 ‘Tobogganing down to Hell’: Locating the flapper north and south of the border – Louise Ryan and Rachel Sayers 2 ‘Shaping her own style’: Female fashionistas across Ireland, 1919-1935– Síle Hunt3 ‘The film is primarily for the women of all countries’: Cinema as international community – Veronica Johnson 4 ‘Enticing Spaces’: The Architecture of Leisure and Glamour in 1930s Ireland – Candace White 5 ‘Wanted’: Women and jazz music and dance on the island of Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s – Eileen Hogan and Ruth Stanley6 Cultural retrenchment: from ‘jazzing’ to ‘old time waltzing’ – Tom Spalding 7 The gendered geographies of the modern girl and the Dublin tramcar: The ‘Jolly Flapper’ incident – Denis Linehan8 Culture and conviction: The Modest Dress and Deportment Crusade in an international context – Úna Ní Bhroiméil 9 The United Irishwomen/Irish Countrywomen’s Association: Re-imagining opportunities for rural women’s leisure in the Irish Free State, 1920-1939 – Caitriona Beaumont 10 The Life of Mary (Mamie) Murphy: An Irish Modern Woman – Alison Bohan Afterword – Claire Langhamer