Women of 'Little Paris'

Sonia-Doris Andras is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Seal of Excellence Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Pisa, Italy. She has a PhD from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. Mapping the interwar WorldInventing Greater RomaniaFashioning the Romanian Paradox3. Interwar Metropolitan and Urban CulturesWomen, Life, Fashion and Industry in the City‘Little Paris’: A National Rebirth Project4. From the Modern Girl to the New WomanGender DynamicsCrafting the ‘New Romanian Woman’5. Authors and Characters: Women in LiteratureFictional Women, Real BucharestsDiaries, Memoirs, Biographies 6. From Subjects to Creators: Women Imagined in the ArtsPortraying FashionPerforming Fashion7. Transition to New Visual Forms: Film, PhotographyFashioning the Silver Screen“Pictured with Nose Up, like Moms Wanted”8. ConclusionBibliographyAppendixIndex

Carefully crafted, drawing on an extensive array of archival materials [and] complemented by an extensive body of secondary literature, which Andras skillfully integrates.