La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina

“In this dynamic cultural history, Tossounian turns our attention to how ‘non-official gendered figures’ have played a large but underappreciated role in constructing and engendering Argentine national identity. Turning our attention away from the extremely well-studied gaucho, she reveals just how much of modernity and national identity was pinned on la joven moderna (the modern girl) in 1920 and 1930s Argentina.”—Rebekah E. Pite, author of Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women, and Food

“La Joven Moderna makes an important contribution to the historiography of modern Argentina and to the global history of women.”—Matthew B. Karush, author of Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

“Makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the interwar years in Argentina. … Tossounian effectively displays how gender, popular culture, and consumption were at the center of social, political, and cultural debates on Argentine national identity from the 1920s to the early 1940s.”—The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

“Tossounian, by dealing with changing gender practices and representations, female work and consumption, feminism, mass culture, and nationalism, speaks to scholars of interwar-period social and cultural history in Argentina and elsewhere. … Raises thought-provoking questions about how state-sponsored cultural policies and images of the nation intertwined with mass-produced representations of the culture industry.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

“Tossounian’s work should be read alongside those of other prominent scholars of gender and nationalism in Argentina.”—Bulletin of Spanish Studies