The Barbizon the hotel that set women free
"The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York t...
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New York, NY :
Simon & Schuster,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Building the Barbizon: the unsinkable Molly Brown vs. the flappers
- Surviving the Depression: Gibbs Girls and Powers models
- McCarthyism and its female prey: Betsy Talbot Blackwell and her career women
- The dollhouse days: Grace Kelly and the beauty queens
- Sylvia Plath: the summer of 1953
- Joan Didion: the summer of 1955
- The invisible: Gael Greene and "The lone women"
- "The problem that has no name": Sylvia Plath and the 1950s, in memoriam
- The end of an era: from women's hotel to millionaires' apartments.
