Bøker av Noralee Frankel

Examines freedom's influence on the lives of African American women and families in Mississippi during and after the Civil War. Exploring issues of family and work, this book shows how African American women's attempts to achieve more control over their lives shaped their attitudes toward work, marriage, family, and community.

On March 15, 1865, three weeks before the end of the Civil War, twenty-year-old M. Jerome Clarke was hanged as a Confederate guerrilla in Louisville, Kentucky, as a crowd of thousands looked on. In the official charges against him, Clarke's description in

Hailed as an "endlessly fascinating biography of an extraordinary woman" (Daily Express) and "a page turner" (Independent), Noralee Frankel's lively biography illuminates the fascinating career of Gypsy Rose Lee, a woman who created and recreated her own identity to fit changing times. Placing the famed stripper's life in a refreshing new light, Frankel reveals that though Lee was not above using her femininity to full advantage, she aspired to muchmore than admiration for her physical beauty. Indeed, those who know Lee only from the beloved musical and film Gypsy!-which celebrates her unconventional rise to stardom-will be surprised to discover a woman who was not only a sex object, but also a best-selling writer, artist, political activist, and unionleader. In addition to her highly successful strip-tease act and film career, Lee published two popular mystery novels and a memoir, wrote two plays, showed her original artwork in famed Modern Art-impresario Peggy Guggenheim's gallery, and gained notoriety for her participation in liberal politics.