how did the lives of american women changed during the 1920's
2007-11-04 11:46:04 · 5 answers · asked by shanebell 1 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
The women I knew who were girls then changed a lot. One women was born in 1897 and was old fashioned, never wore pants in her life and never cut her hair except once. Her younger sister went right out the front door wearing pants and got on her boyfriend's motorcycle the family was scandlized. The younger got married and had kids but even in old age would wear pants suits. The older sister never did.
Women in the 20's often did things earlier generations wouldn't like getting bobbed hair and showing ankles and dancing the Charleston.
2007-11-04 11:49:20 · answer #1 · answered by shipwreck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out what was happening in Paris and Berlin - and work backwards. Obviously, America was still a cultural backwater at the time but neverthess there was some influence - especially amongst American society's intelligentsia: intellectuals, artists, socialists, feminists...and so on.
Think: Spanish Civil War and authors like Ernest Hemmingway.
2007-11-04 21:06:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They changed because the US Constitution was getting older and American men were comercilaizing everything. The Depression changed eveything and women went to work while men were at war. Food was limited. Healthcare was poor. Women's rights hadn't come into effect.
2007-11-04 21:17:01 · answer #3 · answered by littleblanket 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they could go to party's and dress different and had more liberty remember of the flappers they will wear the shorest thing and no one will mind
2007-11-04 19:49:42 · answer #4 · answered by shoehighness 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-11-04 19:52:53 · answer #5 · answered by zoloboom 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋