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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WORK CITED

• Http://vintagemakeupguide.com
• United States History Modern Student Edition