![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You needed letters of recommendation to get in. The Barbizon, a residential hotel on New York’s Upper East Side, catered to middle- and upper-class women. But you can’t help coming away with a heightened understanding of the societal hurdles faced - and the methods and stratagems for advancement employed - by ambitious, venturesome ladies of the decades from the Roaring Twenties through the “Me Decade” of the Seventies. Reading it may not give you great insight into what makes women tick, and all that that implies. So today, in recognition of the recent International Women’s Day, I commend to you The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free, a new book by historian Paulina Bren of Vassar College. There’s the truth that should be universally acknowledged. There’s just no understanding of women, if you’re a male of the species. And that goes for a married man as well, be he possessed of big bucks or living paycheck-to-paycheck. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an understanding of women. ![]()
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