Images of Women in 20th-Century American Literature and Culture

What do The Age of Innocence, Breakfast at Tiffany''s, and Sex and the City have in common? Strong women ahead of their time! Being part of New York''s middle and upper class, Ellen Olenska, Holly Golightly and Carrie Bradshaw & Co. cherish their otherness and strive for personal freedom and gender equality, thereby trying to combine traditional longings and modern beliefs. However, though situate...