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

A highly original addition to the cultural history of the interwar period in Romania … [Of] interest to those researching the entanglement of gender and nation in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe, to scholars of fashion and popular culture, to historians of media, and not least to those interested in urban history.