The women who made New York

Author

Julie Scelfo

Call Number

• 920.72 S289 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Berkeley, CA : Seal Press, [2016]

Physical Description

335 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work. -- amazon.com

Contents

• Introduction
• The settler
• The revolutionary
• The caretakers
• The builders
• The liberators
• The beacon
• The advocates
• Wall Street
• The benefactors
• The funder
• The ambassador
• Madison Avenue
• Hot stuff
• The news makers
• Harlem Renaissance
• The crooks
• The authorities
• The Great White Way
• The editrixes
• The style setters
• The artists
• Soundtrack to the city
• The mythmakers
• The icons
• The educators
• The politicos
• The preservationists
• The counterculturists
• The intellects
• The loudmouths
• After hours
• The grocers
• The restaurateurs
• The tastemakers
• The in-crowd
• The aunties
• The ushers
• The wisecrackers.