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thebookshelfofrat's review against another edition
3.0
More about how adolescent girls were viewed and the rise of feminism from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s than about flappers themselves. Still an interesting read!
cupiscent's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
I enjoyed this a lot, and it was a fascinating look at a whole lot of social and cultural history around the turn of the twentieth century, but (especially coming after the book on cotton that I read before this one) I sometimes grew weary of being so outraged by the "product of their time" primary-source quotes - in this case, appalling views on gender, and on eugenics and "race suicide" and other charmingly awful racist nonsense. Not that the author supported any of it, and obviously it did exist and people said it, it's just... it's exhausting, how awful people have been and can be. And how terrified they've been of young women for such a long time.
Anyway, there were also plenty of primary-source quotes of young ladies saying things like, "You see, we're quite accustomed to the idea that we have ankles and it doesn't seem that shocking for other people to know as well," so fun was also had, and this was a quick, interesting, and nicely put together exploration.Â
Anyway, there were also plenty of primary-source quotes of young ladies saying things like, "You see, we're quite accustomed to the idea that we have ankles and it doesn't seem that shocking for other people to know as well," so fun was also had, and this was a quick, interesting, and nicely put together exploration.Â
bec_ause_i_said_so's review against another edition
4.0
Most of this book is looking at the decades before the Flapper became mainstream, interesting history but not quite what I expected from the cover
humbug87's review against another edition
2.0
That really wasn't the book it implied it was. An interesting view of the social situation prior to the emergence of the flapper but felt more like a different body of work with flappers peppered in.
qwerty88's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
did a good job of going back before the Castles and Zelda and Scott to some of the broader questions of the time leading up to the 1914s. Surprisingly little coverage of the impact of WW1.
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