Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation /
Mackrell, Judith.
London : Macmillan,
2013.
This is a gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit.
Diana [Cooper] -- Nancy [Cunard] -- Tamara [de Lempicka] -- Tallulah [Bankhead] -- Zelda [Fitzgerald] -- Josephine [Baker] -- Tamara [de Lempicka]
Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986.
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968.
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980.
Women
Popular culture
Women
Women
Nineteen twenties.
Sex customs
Sex role
Celebrities
Artists