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Mackrell enjoys the biographies of her six flappers too much, i think, to want to overanalyse the social and cultural implications of the phenomenon. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Feb 16, 2014 she wasnt the only one blowing past her limits during that risky era, but as judith mackrell puts it in flappers. Flappers reminds us of the enormous, lasting cultural impact of gutsy, vibrant women who managed. Six women of a dangerous generation, by judith mackrell. Judith mackrell s book is about much more than fast girls with bobbed hair, bold mouths and a desperate need to get.
She dedicates two chapters to each women, beginning with diana cooper and then meticulously works through the other five women. Women of a dangerous generation promises a study of a dangerous generation of the 1920s. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the charleston. Nancy cunard, tallulah bankhead, zelda fitzgerald, josephine baker and.
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