Women and Flappers Sabrina, Noe, Vannessa, Daniela

how were women's lives different in 1920? During the 1920's women were never considered as people but as property. It was believed that women should be at home cleaning, taking care of the children, and focused on religion while men took care of business and politics. In North Carolina opponents of the woman's suffrage claimed that women were not equal to men mentally. By 1929 women didn't have the same rights as men but they did have some. Women were finally allowed to be apart of local, state, and national political committees.

What is a flapper? ● A flapper was a fashionable young women intended to enjoy herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. ● Flappers wore really short skirts and weren't afraid to show a little skin that was considered inappropriate for women back then. In addition they wore excessive amount of makeup

The flapper lifestyle.. ●Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.Westernbobbedjazz ●Flappers were seen as energetic people because they were excessive makeup,drank,treated sex as a casual manner,smoke,and drove automobiles that were not normal for women. ●spend majority of their time at clubs and roaming the city

Why did flappers become prominent? ● Flappers became prominent because they became the face of a “young women rebellion”. ● the term “flapper” was described as a new breed of women, or also described as a young bird; since women gain their rights they were like baby birds learning to fly for the first time. ● In the eyes of the media women were started to become a disgusting and unrespected form.

-The 19th amendment of the United States Constitution granted American women the right to vote. It wasn’t until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with a convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( ) and Lucretia Mott ( ). After the convention, the demand for the vote became a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott, along with Susan B. Anthony ( ) and other activists, created organizations that raised public awareness and pushed the government to grant voting rights to women. After a 70-year battle, these groups finally emerged victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment. What was the 19th Amendment?

-women in the 1800s wore a stiff trim undergarment called a corset. Even young girls were encourage to wear corset to create a “waistline.” Interesting Fact #1

Interesting Fact #2 - Women had worn some unusual fashions to enhance their bodies. In the 18th century, women wore “pocket hoops” to make their hips appear larger.

Interesting Quote “We belonged to a generation of young women who felt extraordinarily free, free from the demand to marry unless we chose to do so. free to postpone marriage while we did other things, free from the need to bargain and hedge that had burdened and restricted women of earlier generations.” -Margaret Mead, a feminist who was all for the women's movement of the early 1900s. She felt that young women should feel free to postpone marriage and family in order to pursue their education and career.