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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Description: One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the womanās calling card, which read simply, āI am Fritzie Mann.ā Yet Fritzieās identity, as revealed in this compelling history, was anything but simple, and her deathāeventually ruled a homicideācaptured public attention for months. InĀ Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a FlapperĀ (U Oklahoma Press, 2023), historian Amy Absher reveals how broader cultural forces, including gendered violence, sexual liberation, and evolving urban conditions in the America...