Flappers
By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, new attitudes about art and sex—all of this pointed to a modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future. The women who defined this the Jazz Age—Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Tamara de Lempicka—would presage the sexual revolution by nearly half a century and would shape the role of women for generations to come. The women came from vastly different backgrounds, but all ended up passing through Paris, the mecca of the avant-garde. But beneath the flamboyance and excess of the Roaring Twenties lay age-old prejudices about gender, race, and sexuality.
- Creator
- Mackrell, Judith