By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy
fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex--all of
this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the
grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft,
stylized gesture. The women who defined this 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.In Flappers, the acclaimed biographer Judith
Mackrell renders these women with all the color that marked their
lives and their era. Both sensuous and sympathetic, her admiring
biography lays bare the private lives of her heroines, filling in
the bold contours. These women came from vastly different
backgrounds, but all ended up passing through Paris, the mecca of
the avant-garde. Before she was the toast of Parisian society,
Josephine Baker was a poor black girl from the slums of Saint
Louis. Tamara de Lempicka fled the Russian Revolution only to
struggle to scrape together a life for herself and her family. A
committed painter, her portraits were indicative of the age's art
deco sensibility and sexual daring. The Brits in the group--Nancy
Cunard and Diana Cooper-- came from pinkie-raising aristocratic
families but soon descended into the salacious delights of the
vanguard. Tallulah Bankhead and Zelda Fitzgerald were two Alabama
girls driven across the Atlantic by a thirst for adventure and
artistic validation.
But beneath the flamboyance and excess of the 1920s lay age-old
prejudices about gender, race, and sexuality. These flappers
weren't just dancing and carousing; they were fighting for
recognition and dignity in a male-dominated world. They were more
than mere lovers or muses to the modernist masters--in their
pursuit of fame and intense experience, we see a generation of
women taking bold steps toward something burgeoning, undefined,
maybe dangerous: a New Woman.
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