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Organising Modern Emotions
ORGANISING MODERN EMOTIONS Gillian Swanson, Drunk with the Glitter: Space, Consumption and Sexual Instability in Modern Urban Culture, London and New York, Routledge, 2007; 212pp, £14.99 paperback.
The prediction in 1944 for what would happen to the untreated 'problem girl' was grim: 'the life of rich fantasy gives place to an increasing dementia until the patient glimmers dimly in a corner of the asylum, dull-witted as a cow'. This quote is not lightiy emphasised by Swanson, for what was at stake ...See the full content of this document
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