“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”› July 1922 edition of

Flapper Magazine › “not for old foggies”

Appearances: bobbed hair, short skirts, bright colors, high healed shoes, makeup

Behaviors: drove cars, flirted, danced, socialized with men for fun/not marriage purposes, drink, smoke, “pet”

semi-flapper; the flapper; the super-flapper

Do you think the semi-flapper agreed with the behavior of the super-flapper?

northern, urban, single, young, middle-class women.

Many held steady jobs in the changing American economy› Telephone operators› Sales clerks› Typists

chose activities to please themselves, not a father or husband

Tried to fight the “double standard”

Silent film star “epitomized

flaming youth – the girl who lived by her heart, not her head”

Made $5,000/week-highest paid female actress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU2pR9rT39c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fx9X8ytdOg Cute video

viewed disdainfully by an older generation as “wild, boisterous and disgraceful.”

Trying to be like men Hurt wages for men & in

careers not suited for them criticized for lack of activism

› Suffragists of the previous generation

Concept of a “woman’s place” expanded

Women wore clothing more convenient for activity and stopped wearing long skirts and corsets.

Women had more time because of modern technology

The number of working women increased by 25 per cent.› 15% of white & 30% of black married women worked

Divorce was made easier and the number of divorces doubled - women were not content just to stay at home and put up with bad husbands.

Not all women were flappers, many criticized this “new woman”

Most married women were still housewives and were not as free as their men. Only 15% white married women worked outside home; 30% African American

Most working women were poorly paid and were employed in roles such as cleaners or waitresses.

Document Summary What it reveals about attitudes toward women in the 1920s

Part 1 Flapper

Part 2Flapper

New Freedom and the Girls – Plus Pic

The New Woman

Catholic Crusade – Plus Pic

Document Summary What it reveals about attitudes toward women in the 1920s

Part 1 Flapper

(both) different types of flappers – bobbed hear, powder nose, bright clothing, shoes, skirts DO NOT smoke, drink, wear rouge, pet – DIFFERENT TYPES: super, flapper & semioverlook our shortcomings (parents) – requires intelligence to be a flapperblame war & prohibition for our behavior – Never talk to us about it!

Remember how hard teen years were? We actually more developed than you!

We have the universe at our finger tips (new inventions) – give us confidence not distrust

Part 2Flapper

War impacted our faith – times made us older and more experienced than youlet us put our knowledge to use – work with us!Need help but no one to turn to but other youth because you constantly criticize us!Deserve to be in a profession/life that suits us – otherwise living a tragedy

Be young with your kids, undestand them, talk to them

New Freedom and the Girls – Plus Pic

New clothing great for women – less cumbersome – however leading to male riots! Women in NY wearing short sleeved before other areasbathsuits are one pieces!Doctors and women and admires think this is good – only people with issue are catholic church and textile industry!Shows reform happened to better women not befcause of laws but in spit of police and politics!

The New Woman

Women abusing their new voting & educational “equality” – trying to become like menmarriage no longer chief goal – even though that best suits personality traitsgoing into professions too “nervous” to handle – also hurts wages for menbrainpower and energy different from men’s keep to caring kids and women’s healthman’s mate/completion NOT competitor

Catholic Crusade – Plus Pic

the 700,000 members to modesty in attirewomen should be more covered up and trying to go to gov to stop immodesty of dress!