Women of 1920
Becker, Susan D. and William Bruce Wheeler"The 'New' Woman of the 1920's: Image and Reality."Discovering the American Past, A Look at the Evidence. 4th ed. Vol. II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.The first part of the evidence (Sources 1 and 2) consists of excerpts from two best sellers: The Sheik and The Plastic Age. Both of these two sources are fiction but still portray the truth of these times in which they were written. In source 1, a young woman by the name of Diana Mayo is about to leave on a month-long journey through the desert. Lady Conway expresses her feelings of disapproval, by saying that Diana is behaving with a "recklessness and impropriety that is calculated to cast a slur not only on her own reputation, but also on the prestige of her country." I feel that men and women should be treated equally. I believe that a woman should be able to do what she pleases to do in life. At this time in history, women were not accepted in that way though. Diana encounters a man that is begging her not to leave, but she clearly expresses that she has no love for the man. She says that marriage for a woman means the end of her independence, and that she has never obeyed anyone in her life and she does not
The word feminist puts a picture in a woman's mind of the women who wore flat heels and had very little feminine charm about them. The first being Woman and the New Race and the second titled Middletown. The second part of the evidence is excerpts from two nonfiction books. Whereas in the pictures of Clara Bow, She appears to be a very sexual seductress, in that she is wearing sexual clothing of that time period and she seems to enjoy that two men are picking her up and is confident she is wanted by those men. I believe that times have changed, but that the essence of a woman has not changed in least. I have seen both intelligent women and men in my time. He asks her to marry him and she rejects his offer. I do not approve of women resorting to birth control, just so that they can go out and have sex with every man coming and going, but young married couples that are not ready to have children extremely benefit from birth control. I think that there are still good women around these days and I am sure that there were back then. Parents of this time encouraged their daughters to become friends with respectable fellows at a very early age. Many people thought that women in the work place produced lower wages and neglected children. I think that this is a stereotype, and one of disgrace. In today's society, a lot of women are forced to work, because of the cost of living, in that one man cannot always provide for an entire family on his own. Before forms of birth control existed women had no real choice of being a mother.
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