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"The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York to work in the dazzling new skyscrapers, they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding houses; they wanted what men already had-exclusive residential...
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Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial y con nuevos derechos políticos, las mujeres llegaron a los modernos y deslumbrantes rascacielos de Manhattan para estrenar su independencia económica. Pero no iban a aceptar menos comodidades de las que disfrutaban los hombres. Construido en 1927, el hotel Barbizon se diseñó como un lujoso refugio para la "mujer moderna" que deseaba hacer carrera. A lo largo de los años, sus casi 700 pequeñas habitaciones...
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