Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

Joshua Zeitz

338 pages first pub 2006 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative medium-paced
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This book is ideal for readers fascinated by the transformative cultural shifts of the 1920s and the bold women who defied societal norms to redefine modernity, feminism, and freedom.

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Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in...

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