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American Studies: Gatsby Essay

Consuming Illusion, Illusions of Consumability: American Movie Palaces of the 1920s
Nobody Loves a Fat Man: Fatty Arbuckle and Conspicuous Consumption in Nineteen Twenties America
Food Prices, Politics, and Policy in the Progressive Era
Collars and Consumers: Changing Images of American Manliness and Business
Advertising, Consumer Credit, and the "Consumer Durables Revolution" of the 1920s
Ch. 2 Navigating Mass Society
in The New Era : American Thought and Culture in the 1920s by Paul V. Murphy
Ch. 4 Coolidgeian Normalcy 1923-5
in The Twenties in America : Politics and History by Niall Palmer

Rethinking Sexuality in the Progressive Era
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
The Eyes of Anna Held: Sex and Sight in the Progressive Era
Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon?: The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920s
The Boys of Beaver Meadow: A Homosexual Community at 1920s Dartmouth College
Sexual Modernism
in American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

Introduction: Mud in our French Heels
in Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Flapper and the Chaperone
in Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century American Girls' Cutures

A 'Hard-Boiled Order': The Reeducation of Disabled WWI Veterans in New York City