Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she's been largely ignored.
Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her domineering pro-Nazi mother. She immersed herself in the antifascist, queer and artistic circles of the German diaspora of the 1930s. Her edgy glamour and androgynous beauty turned heads in the lesbian nightclubs of Weimar Berlin, on the ski slopes of St. Moritz, and in New York's luxury hotels and jazz bars.
Constantly on the move, Annemarie chronicled the low and dishonest decade leading to war through her unique journalism, writing and photography. Her work was as adventurous and uncompromising as her personal life, and reveals a deep courage, intelligence, and ambition tragically curtailed by her untimely death.

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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Cocoon
- 2 Women on the Left Bank
- 3 Breaking the Threads
- 4 Closet of Selves
- 5 Pilgrim Soul
- 6 Lavender Marriages
- 7 Two Women, a Ford and a Rolleiflex
- 8 Enemies of Promise
- 9 Running on Empty
- 10 Heart of Darkness
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- End User License Agreement
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