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Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation

2014

Format:	Book
Author:	Mackrell, Judith.
Title:	Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation / Judith Mackrell.
Edition:	First American edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Description:	xiii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:	Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986. Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965. Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968. Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980. Women -- United States -- Biography. Celebrities -- United States -- Biography. Artists -- United States -- Biography. Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes:	Originally published: Great Britain : Macmillan, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-469) and index.
Contents:	Diana -- Nancy -- Tamara -- Tallulah -- Zelda -- Josephine -- Diana -- Tallulah -- Nancy -- Zelda -- Tamara -- Josephine.
LCCN:	2013035397
ISBN:	9780374156084 0374156085
Other Number:	844728393
System Availability:	3
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	3
Control Number:	400107
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# System items in:	2
Call Number:	920.72 Mackrell

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