‘The Girl About Town’: Discussions of Modernity and Female Youth in Drum Magazine, 1951–1970
(2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, R. E. (2009). ‘The Girl About Town’: Discussions of Modernity and Female Youth in Drum Magazine, 1951–1970. Social Dynamics, 35(1), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533950802666899
This article examines the trope of the ‘modern miss’ in Drum magazine 1951–1970 as a locus for debate over South African urban modernity. At the centre of Drum’s African urbanity was a debate between a progressive, positively ‘modern’ existence and a... Read More about ‘The Girl About Town’: Discussions of Modernity and Female Youth in Drum Magazine, 1951–1970.