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The New Women Of The 1920's

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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THE NEW WOMEN OF THE 1920'S

WHO WERE THE FLAPPERS?

  • A fashionable young women intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

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  • "Exciting to some and shocking to others"
  • "Never too slow/All on the go"

FLAPPER MOVEMENT

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  • Movies, fads, and problems featured "The New Women"
  • Challenged political, economic, social, and educational boundaries
  • Not meant to stay in the kitchen
  • Women entered work force

VICTORIAN VS. THE 1920'S

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  • Women became more liberated
  • Shorter hem lines
  • More makeup
  • Danced to the latest crazes

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  • Entered work force
  • Joined clubs to discuss books and ideas
  • Enlarged the intellectual world of women

CONSUMER ECONOMY OF THE 1920'S

  • Electric vacuum cleaners
  • Electric irons
  • Decrease in intense, even painful, work

MARGARET SANGER

  • Social Reformer
  • Sex Educator
  • Nurse
  • Advocate for Birth Control
  • Opened 1st Birth Control clinic in U.S.

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  • Arrested for distribution of contraception
  • Prevent unsafe abortions
  • Founded American Birth Control League

19TH AMENDMENT

  • Fight for suffrage had been won
  • NAWSA encouraged running for office and fighting for laws
  • Complete economic, social, and political equality
  • Filled higher job positions

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