This is a truly revelatory work of international scope. The authors' innovative collaborative method and their theory of `multidirectional citation' provide exciting new points of departure for the global history of gender formation and of everything else besides. -Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University The study of the Modern Girl exemplified by this groundbreaking collection and research project will ... Read morereconfigure the ways we understand modernity, globalization, gender, and consumption. This book is sorely needed. -Caren Kaplan, co-editor of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State Rarely do collections offer both a compelling object of study and a sophisticated, portable method emanating out of concrete historical particulars. In doing so, the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group models collective feminist critique even as it illuminates new intellectual pathways and raises questions about the uneven terrain of the global and the analytical power of `connective comparison' that will find interlocutors across an array of scholarly projects. -Antoinette Burton, author of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau Show Less