Bibliograph

Flapper, a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern, Joshua Zeitz

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Flapper, a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern, Joshua Zeitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-320) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Flapper

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

61694635

Responsibility statement

Joshua Zeitz

Sub title

a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern

Summary

Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the era to exhilarating life. This is the story of America's first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Tango pirates and absinthe -- The most popular girl -- Sex o'clock in America -- Will she throw her arms around your neck and yell? -- Flapper King -- Doing it for effect -- I prefer this sort of girl -- Straighten out people -- New York sophistication -- Miss jazz age -- Girlish delight in barrooms -- These modern women -- The lingerie shortage in this country -- A mind full of fabulations -- An athletic kind of girl -- Let go of the waistline -- Into the streets -- Without imagination, no wants -- 10,000,000 femmes fatales -- Appearances count -- Papa, what is beer? -- Oh, little girl, never grow up -- The kind of girl the fellows want -- Another petulant way to pass the time -- The dreamer's dream come true -- Suicide on the installment plan -- Unaffordable excess

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