| Edition |
1st American edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-469) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Author's note and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Diana -- Nancy -- Tamara -- Tallulah -- Zelda -- Josephine -- Diana -- Tallulah -- Nancy -- Zelda -- Tamara -- Josephine -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 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. Glamorised, mythologised and demonised, the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. This is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and 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 and daring of that generation's spirit, women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade in which they came of age, the 1920s. |
| Subject |
Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986.
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Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986. |
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Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
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Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965. |
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Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968.
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Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968. |
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Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
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Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948. |
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Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
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Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. |
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Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980.
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Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980. |
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Women -- United States -- Biography.
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Women. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
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Celebrities. |
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Artists -- United States -- Biography.
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Artists. |
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Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex customs. |
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History. |
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Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex role. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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Women -- Social life and customs. |
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Women -- United States -- Biography. |
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Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. |
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Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Sexual practices. |
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Gender roles. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780374156084 (hardcover) |
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0374156085 (hardcover) |
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9781429942942 (ebook) |
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