1. The Twenties Woman, Education, and Popular Culture
Chapter 13, Section 2 and 3

2. The Flapper Young, free woman with new fashions and attitudes
Smoke cigarettes, drink in public, talking opening about sex, danced, marriage is an equal partnership
Challenging Double standard
Different standards of behavior for men and women

3. Flappers

4. Flapper Girls

5. Fashion and Fads

6. New Work Opportunities
Women’s Professions
Teachers, nurses, librarians
Big Business jobs
Typists, filing clerks, secretaries, stenographers, office-machine operators

7. The Changing Family Birth rate decreased Simplified housework labor
Margaret Sanger
1916 Birth Control Clinic
Arrested twice for “distributing obscene materials”
Founder of Planned Parenthood
Simplified housework labor
Ready-made clothes, sliced bread, canned food
Teens spent less time with families and resisted parental control

8. Schools and Mass Media High School Attendance Expanding News Coverage
1914: 1 million
1926: 4 million
Expanding News Coverage
Newspaper circulation grew
Reader’s Digest (1922)
Time (1923)
Radio
Shared national experience of hearing news as it happened
First commercial radio station: KDKA Pittsburgh 1920

9. Radio Age

10. Radio Broadcasts

11. Sports Heroes of the 1920s Gertrude Ederle Babe Ruth
1926 first woman to swim the English Channel
Babe Ruth
1927 hit 60 homeruns for the Yankees
Andrew “Rube” Foster
Founded the Negro Baseball League in 1920
Helen Willis
Won U.S. Open 7 times and Wimbledon 8 times

12. Gertrude Ederle

13. The Sultan of Swat

14. The Father of Black Baseball

15. Little Miss Poker Face

16. Lucky Lindy First trans-Atlantic flight Charles Lindbergh May 20, 1927
Spirit of St. Louis
New York to Paris
$25,000 prize
National hero stood for bravery and honesty
Personal tragedy
May 1932 Charles Jr. kidnapped
$50,000 ransom met, but child was murdered right after he was taken

17. Entertainment and the Arts
Movies
The Jazz Singer
First “talkie” in 1927
Steamboat Willie
First animated talkie in 1928
Art
Georgia O’Keefe

18. Other 1920s Symbols

20. Writers of the 1920s Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Jazz Age”
The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paris
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Donated sales of books to Sacco and Vanzetti defense
Ernest Hemingway