Essential Question:
How does the Flapper represent the "new woman"? Were the 1920's successful for the women's movement?
The flappers represent the new women fantastically. They re-invented what it means to be a women, with rights, status, and independence. Flappers changed the appearance of women forever. The women's movement also helped with gaining women rights through a slow process. By the end of the women's movement women had rights, gained a higher social status, and more independence in their fashion, actions, and choices.
The flappers represent the new women fantastically. They re-invented what it means to be a women, with rights, status, and independence. Flappers changed the appearance of women forever. The women's movement also helped with gaining women rights through a slow process. By the end of the women's movement women had rights, gained a higher social status, and more independence in their fashion, actions, and choices.
Key Points:
Flappers: The view of women began to change with the uprising of women called flappers. Flappers were young women who started dressing differently. Were often refereed to as young girls, nineteen, who were rich and 'lovely'. One reason they were called flappers is because the buckles on their boots would flap as they walked. Flappers brought change with them wherever they went. Flappers often provoked the idea of women being more free and having more to say in what they do, look like, act like, and with whom they marry.
Women's Movement: The women's movement was a movement based on the idea of given women more control over their lives and more say in the world. From the women's movement women gained the ability to own part of their husband's estate, have custody over the children, and keep some of the money. After the Dower Act women the legal right to one third of her husbands land before and after his death. During the a trial with the Privy Council of Great Britain women were named to be persons in the eyes of other people now, no longer things of beings or property of their husbands.
Different Life: Women's lives were different from the progressive era to the twenties was by their social status and rights. Women during the progressive era had very few rights and were very low on the social ladder, they were almost as low as the black males. Towards the end of the progressive era women were given the nineteenth amendment and the right to vote. During the twentieth era women slowly gained rights, independence, and social status. With the Dower Act, the women's movement, and flappers paving the way to change women gained more social status to be close to the white male and more property rights.
Women's Movement: The women's movement was a movement based on the idea of given women more control over their lives and more say in the world. From the women's movement women gained the ability to own part of their husband's estate, have custody over the children, and keep some of the money. After the Dower Act women the legal right to one third of her husbands land before and after his death. During the a trial with the Privy Council of Great Britain women were named to be persons in the eyes of other people now, no longer things of beings or property of their husbands.
Different Life: Women's lives were different from the progressive era to the twenties was by their social status and rights. Women during the progressive era had very few rights and were very low on the social ladder, they were almost as low as the black males. Towards the end of the progressive era women were given the nineteenth amendment and the right to vote. During the twentieth era women slowly gained rights, independence, and social status. With the Dower Act, the women's movement, and flappers paving the way to change women gained more social status to be close to the white male and more property rights.
Thinking Like a Historian: Change and Community
Changes from the twentieth century to today include women's rights. Women of today now have the same rights, social status, and independence men do. A few things that have stayed the same since the 1920s is that many women had big impacts on the future for the nation in politics, the economy, and the social structure. As a nation there has not been a women president yet but the goal is in the near future. Many women have benefited from these changes and if looking from a power point of view men have lost the command they had over their family and wife.
APPARTS
Will E. Chapin was the man who drew this political cartoon. It was right after the passing of the nineteenth amendment but before it was ratified. It was published March 7, 1920. Some prior knowledge on the subject of women's suffrage was many women were fighting for it but it was a slow process. They had a few steps (buttons) left to finish before they were finally given the right to vote. The cartoon's intended audience was for men and women of the United States to express the frustration of the women. The main idea of the cartoon was that the women were so close to one of their goals yet they had a few more steps to go before they obtained national suffrage. Many flappers were the women in the women's movement and the women fighting for suffrage who accomplished their goals in suffrage and rights.
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