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Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
Explores the ethos of a restless generation, starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion before World War I and continuing to the Wall Street crash of 1929, discovering what exemplified the range and daring of the flapper spirit. The women who defined this age were Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald and Tamara de Lempicka. They would shape the role of women for generations to come.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
During the 1950s and 1960s, popular media was doing everything possible to undo the strong, work-oriented Rosie the Riveter image of the 1940s and bring women back into the domestic fold. The young, blonde Gidget image offered young girls a role model for carefree living before they settled down to fulfill their patriotic duty as wives and mothers. Yet many women weren't buying the images that advised them on how to catch husbands and become dutiful...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe-even from the family that cherishes her. Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding....
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the roles of American women at the turn of the century as seen in the stereotypes of the sophisticated and fashionable Gibson girl and the strong-minded suffragists and illustrates how they were reflected in the magazines, television shows, and films of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Looks at the role of women in postwar America, discussing the common perceptions of women at the time--including flappers and housewives--and illustrating how they were reflected in the magazines, catalogs, and films of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Looks at the roles of American women in the 1930s and 1940s seen in the stereotypes of the strong, patriotic "Rosie the Riveter" and the frugal homemaker "Mrs. America" and illustrates how they were reflected in the magazines, catalogs, and films of the time.
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking collection, American Muslim women writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex. Their stories show just how varied the search for love can be--from singles' events and college flirtations to arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist. These heartfelt tales are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing. One follows the quintessential single woman in the big...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. Flappers takes readers back to the time of speakeasies, gangsters, dance bands, and silent film stars, offering a fresh look at the Jazz Age by focusing on the women who came to symbolize it. Flappers captures the full scope of the hedonistic subculture that made the Roaring Twenties roar, a group that reacted to Prohibition and other attempts to impose a stricter morality on the nation. Topics include the transition from silent...
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