Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0374156085 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780374156084 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xiii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Edition: 1st American Edition.
Publisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-469) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of illustrations -- Author's note and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Diana -- Nancy -- Tamara -- Tallulah -- Zelda -- Josephine -- Diana -- Tallulah -- Nancy -- Zelda -- Tamara -- Josephine -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.