The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emancipation In ...

They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t just following a fashion trend — they were the OG rule-breakers. With ...

The six subjects of Judith Mackrell’s new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly forgotten today, which is as good a reason as any to pick up the book and ...

Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s. Unlike recent books such as Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and ...

‘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 ...

Flappers author Judith Mackrell talks about how the 1920s changed the lives of women, including the opportunities to vote and earn money. Your new book, Flappers, is subtitled ‘six women of a ...