Flappers - Women Of A Dangerous Generation

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Details: Glamorized, mythologized & 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, & 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 & daring of that generations spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker & Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes & partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, & heroines of their age. Talented, reckless & willful, with personalities that transcended their class & background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining & tragic ways. & between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. Ideal for: Those interested in events that changed the way women were valued & there stories. This hardback book has 487 pages & measures: 24.2 x 16 x 4.3cm