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The 1920’s are often seen as the birth of modernism and industrialization, often referred to as the Jazz Age. It was a time of change in many respects. The image of the American culture was being redefined. Society was altering with more focus on the leisure industries. Hollywood came alive and so did the actresses. With all the changes going on in American society there was also a shift in the power between the genders and a distance between the generations began to appear. This occurred due to the emergence of a new type of woman, the flapper, but was she the symbol of the 1920’s American women?
The flapper was a product of the great changes, which occurred after World War One.
Before the 1920’s many women had focused on the suffragette movement and been involved in a number of women’s groups. However after the nineteenth amendment was passed many women began to lose interest in politics and the suffragette movement. Organizations and groups began to splinter. Their main objective had been reached; they had won the right to vote now each group had different items on their agenda, some groups expressed their disgust over the items which other group’
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>From the evidence gathered in this essay it seems justifiable to say that the flapper although was a prominent symbol of the Jazz Age, they were not the only symbol of the Age. The flappers opposed prohibition because drinking was part of their newly found freedom from mainstream society. It is justifiable to say that the flappers were in fact the symbol of women in the 1920’s. The flappers became a symbol of Hollywood society and not mainstream society, they were a counter-culture who did not change mainstream society and were described as a fad of the 1920’s, which like prohibition faded at the end of the Jazz Age. Disagreeing with the ban on alcohol was just another rebellious action by these young females. Her dress was short and many of them taped their breasts down to give them a flat chested look. ” It is impossible to say for certain whether the flappers the most predominate symbol of the 1920’s American society, as far as women are concerned this is because there was so much going on during the 1920’s. The older generation “Complained that women weren’t women anymore”. It is important to remember that the flappers were not the only types of female, which were present during the 1920’s. Proh!
ibition is as much a symbol of the 1920’s, as the flappers. The 1920’s were the first time that women went to state colleges and universities and entered at the same rate as men. After the war America was in a period of great economic boom. The Modern Housewife was targeted by the product manufactures and the new and improved laborsaving devices to make her life easier were being produced.
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