‘Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation,’ by Judith Mackrell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For most, the ‘flapper’ evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless ...

The 1920s were a decade of explosive change, and at the heart of this cultural revolution were the flappers. Emerging from the shadow of World War I and fueled by the victory of the women’s suffrage ...

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For most, the “flapper” evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless Charlestoning, like a scene from Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby on continuous repeat. She’s the spirit of ...

The precise etymology of "flapper", as applied to a young woman of the Jazz Age, is a bit fuzzy. Most people seem to agree that it developed from the image of a baby bird leaving the parental nest and ...

If youth is wasted on the young (and it is!), it's also a constant source of desire and anxiety in American society. Here's a quick tour of a century's worth of mesmerizing, terrifying, ...

Josephine Baker, one of the six women featured in Judith Mackrell's 'Flappers' Credit: Photo: Getty Images Flappers is all good, dirty fun. Judith Mackrell makes no bones about the vigorous sex lives ...