Flappers
Subtitle: six women of a dangerous generation
By: Judith Mackrell
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780374156084
Subjects: Social life and customs; Popular culture; Celebrities; Women; Sex role; Nineteen twenties; Artists; Sex customs; Biography; History
Description: The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.  Glamorised, mythologised and demonised, the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. This 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, women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade in which they came of age, the 1920s.

Contains primary source material
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Macmillan, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-469) and index.
Table of contents: title: Diana; title: Nancy; title: Tamara; title: Tallulah; title: Zelda; title: Josephine; title: Diana; title: Tallulah; title: Nancy; title: Zelda; title: Tamara; title: Josephine.