USA 2004, 260 pp., brochure, € 16.59Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.In the early part the twentieth century, New York City was a hotbed of creativity and scandal. Meet the woman at the heart of it. They were poets, actresses, singers, artists, journalists, publishers, baronesses, and benefactresses. They were thinkers and they were drinkers. They eschewed the social conventions expected of them – to become wives and mothers – and decided to live on their own terms. In doing so, they became the voices of a new, fierce feminine spirit. The milieu includet Bessie Smith, Emma Goldman, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and much more. These Woman never stopped beliving that there were new ways to move through the world as women. As they blasted the open to the rest of the century, they ignited the imaginations of all the generations that followed.