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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zeitz, Joshua
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Three Rivers Press, 2009.
Subjects:
United States > History > 1919-1933 > Biography.
Women > United States > Biography.
Celebrities > United States > Biography.
Artists > United States > Biography.
United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945.
Women > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Sex customs > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex role > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Artists.
Celebrities.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Sex customs.
Sex role.
Women.
Women > Social life and customs.
United States.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 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
  • Conclusion: Unaffordable excess.