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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation - Softcover

Mackrell, Judith

 
9780330529525: Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330529528 ISBN 13: 9780330529525
Verlag: Pan, 2014

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For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives.

In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open.

Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

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Judith Mackrell's biography of the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, Bloomsbury Ballerina, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, her group biographies Flappers and Going with the Boys were critically acclaimed and The Unfinished Palazzo was an international bestseller. She was for many years the dance critic of The Guardian, for whom she still writes. She has also appeared on television and radio, as well as writing on dance, co-authoring The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. She lives in London. Her latest book is Artists, Siblings, Visionaries.

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Verlag
Pan
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330529528
ISBN 13 
9780330529525
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
529
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