Flapper:  Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9780307523822
Description: From the Introduction...

An early reference in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defined the flapper as “A young girl, esp. one somewhat daring in conduct, speech and dress,” a designation that at least one eighteen-year-old woman in 1922 seemed ready to embrace. “Of all the things that flappers don't like,” she boldly explained to readers of The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, “it is the commonplace.”

If historians still disagree about how and when the term came into vogue, by the early 1920s it seemed that every social ill in America could be attributed to the “flapper”--the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors. She was the envy of teenage girls everywhere and the scourge of good character and morals. Nobody could escape the intense dialogue over the flapper. “Concern--and consternation--about the flapper are general,” observed a popular newspaper columnist of the day. “She disports herself flagrantly in the public eye, and there is no keeping her out of grownup company or conversation. Roughly, the world is divided into those who delight in her, those who fear her and those who try pathetically to take her as a matter of course.”
Table of contents: label: Copyright; label: Dedication; title: Tango Pirates And Absinthe
label: Introduction; label: Part One; title: The Most Popular Girl
label: Chapter 1; title: Sex O'Clock In America
label: Chapter 2; title: Will She Throw Her Arms Around Your Neck And Yell?
label: Chapter 3; title: Flapper King
label: Chapter 4; title: Doing It For Effect
label: Chapter 5; title: I Prefer This Sort Of Girl
label: Chapter 6; title: Straighten Out People
label: Chapter 7; title: New York Sophistication
label: Chapter 8; title: Miss Jazz Age
label: Chapter 9; title: Girlish Delight In Barrooms
label: Chapter 10; title: These Modern Women
label: Chapter 11; title: The Lingerie Shortage In This Country
label: Chapter 12; label: Part Two; title: A Mind Full Of Fabulations
label: Chapter 13; title: An Athletic Kind Of Girl
label: Chapter 14; title: Let Go Of The Waistline
label: Chapter 15; title: Into The Streets
label: Chapter 16; title: Without Imagination, No Wants
label: Chapter 17; title: 10,000,000 Femmes Fatales
label: Chapter 18; title: Appearances Count
label: Chapter 19; label: Part Three; title: Papa, What Is Beer?
label: Chapter 20; title: Oh, Little Girl, Never Grow Up
label: Chapter 21; title: The Kind Of Girl The Fellows Want
label: Chapter 22; title: Another Petulant Way To Pass The Time
label: Chapter 23; title: The Dreamer's Dream Come True
label: Chapter 24; title: Suicide On The Installment Plan
label: Chapter 25; title: Unaffordable Excess
label: Conclusion; label: Notes; label: Photography Credits; label: Acknowledgments; label: About the Author