Paris Was a Woman

Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations this scrapbook of their workalong with Andrea Weiss'' lively commentaryhighlights the political social and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists including Colette Djuna Barnes Gertrude Stein Alice B. Toklas Sylvia Beach and many more.. Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated it is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their selves and their voices in Paris. A wealth of photographs paintings drawings and literary fragments combine with Weiss'' revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for who Paris was neither mistress nor muse but a different kind of woman.