Although the feminists of the 1920s did not significantly improve their economic status, they were able to boost their political status by passing the 19th Amendment for women’s suffrage. Before they could vote, women had very strict roles in society. Many people during the 1920s believed that when a woman spoke in public, she was “ignoring [her] biological weaknesses,” such as a smaller brain and more fragile physique (Krolokke 5). The argument continued, stating that these women were also harming their reproductive abilities (Krolokke 5). Suffragists first broke these stereotypes by engaging in public persuasion, which was deemed “unwomanly” by the people of the era (Krolokke 5). After that, they slowly earned the right to “indirect[ly] influence, [but] certainly not engage in, public activities” (Krolokke 5). Even as the suffragists tried to achieve the right to vote, they had to work within these stigmas. The popular opinion stated that women had a “natural disposition toward maternity and domesticity” (Krolokke 5). Therefore, suffragists argued that female voters would enrich politics with their maternal characteristics (Krolokke 5). After years of protest, the 19th Amendment was officially ratified in 1920. Men and women finally had equal voting rights. While this piece of legislation was a significant advancement for the first-wave women, they still faced major obstacles in society. Female voters were harassed. In Indianola, Mississippi, Irene Magruder’s house was set on fire after it was used as an office for voter registration workers (Collins 432). When the firemen arrived, they turned their hoses off and watched as the house and everything Magruder owned burned down (Collins 432). Another woman, Fannie Lou Hamer, face...
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... setting up the basis for the second movement. After women began talking about the family economy during the first wave, the women were able to shift their focus to their personal careers and salaries during the second wave. Additionally, the first wave gave women the right to vote, but the second wave gave women more political power. Women distinguished themselves through their sexuality in the first wave, while the second wave helped women distinguish themselves through their strength. The achievements of the second feminist movement clearly had their roots in the first movement. Feminism is now entering its third wave. Regardless of whether the new feminists use an indirect approach, like the 1920s movement, or a direct approach, like the 1970s movement, American women will continue fighting for gender equality until the words “man” and “woman” both mean “human.”
In order to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, legislators needed to know both sides of the suffrage argument. With anti-suffragists primarily communicating their message through subtle means such as plays, magazines, and dressing in specific colors, it’s no surprise that the radical, public demonstrations of suffragettes was more successful in raising awareness and bringing light to their cause.
After the success of antislavery movement in the early nineteenth century, activist women in the United States took another step toward claiming themselves a voice in politics. They were known as the suffragists. It took those women a lot of efforts and some decades to seek for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In her essay “The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics,” Ellen Carol Dubois notes some hardships American suffragists faced in order to achieve the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Along with that essay, the film Iron-Jawed Angels somehow helps to paint a vivid image of the obstacles in the fight for women’s suffrage. In the essay “Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II,” Ruth Milkman highlights the segregation between men and women at works during wartime some decades after the success of women suffrage movement. Similarly, women in the Glamour Girls of 1943 were segregated by men that they could only do the jobs temporarily and would not able to go back to work once the war over. In other words, many American women did help to claim themselves a voice by voting and giving hands in World War II but they were not fully great enough to change the public eyes about women.
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In the 1920's women's roles were soon starting to change. After World War One it was called the "Jazz Age", known for new music and dancing styles. It was also known as the "Golden Twenties" or "Roaring Twenties" and everyone seemed to have money. Both single and married women we earning higher- paying jobs. Women were much more than just staying home with their kids and doing house work. They become independent both financially and literally. Women also earned the right to vote in 1920 after the Nineteenth Amendment was adopted. They worked hard for the same or greater equality as men and while all this was going on they also brought out a new style known as the flapper. All this brought them much much closer to their goal.
As progressive era reforms advanced from the 1880s to t 1920s, women took on a significant role in political change with specific regard to the ratification of the 19th amendment and social conditions with emphasis on women’s reproductive rights and restraint from alcohol.
The 1920s in American history had been a decade of drastic changes. It was the time when the traditional culture translated into the more modern practices.United States experienced super changes after the Great War had ended. During this decade, more people are moving to big cities and away from the suburbs to work in industrialized factories. Cars such as Ford were mass produced. Advertisement was first created in the age of consumerism. The 1920s, often known in America as the “Roaring Twenties”, is considered as the first modern era in which many advancements and improvements have been made.
“Women’s roles were constantly changing and have not stopped still to this day.” In the early 1900s many people expected women to be stay at home moms and let the husbands support them. But this all changes in the 1920s, women got the right to vote and began working from the result of work they have done in the war. Altogether in the 1920s women's roles have changed drastically.
Like any important political movement, goals change based on situational urgency. In the 1920’s through the 1930’s, feminist women were suffragettes who fought for their right to vote. Alongside voting rights, feminists at this time were advocating for a shift in perspective, specifically a shift in the perspective of women’s roles in society. This ideological shift was as follows: “Women could be both a happy wife and mother and a successful contributor to the household economy”(Nicholson, 53). This ideological shift was necessary because America needed a female workforce while the males fought World War II. This period is known as first wave feminism, or as I will refer to it “first storm feminism”. Later on, feminist’s strived for more
The struggle for women's rights, particularly the right to vote, was a long and arduous journey marked by numerous challenges. From the mid-19th century through the early 20th century, women activists confronted societal norms, legal barriers, and deep-rooted prejudices. By delving into the main challenges faced by women as they fought for their rights, examining the arguments put forth by prominent figures such as Frances Harper, Margaret Sanger, Carrie Chapman Catt, Elsie Hill, and Florence Kelley, as well as the insights provided by Liette Gidlow in "Beyond 1920: The Legacies of Woman Suffrage” the struggle of the suffrage movement is better understood. One of the primary challenges women faced was the entrenched patriarchal attitudes prevalent in society.
The Feminist Movement begin in the in 1848 spearheaded by the Seneca Fall Convention (Smith & Hamon, 2012). Feminism is the reaction to many year of oppression by a male dominated society. In the Feminist Movement women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Canton Stanton desired rights, opportunities, and the identity that women deserved (Smith & Hamon, 2012). Osmond and Thorne (1993) stated that Feminist respond by expressing their desire to “develop knowledge that will further social change, knowledge that will help confront and end subordination of women as it related to the pattern of subordination based on social class, race, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation” (p. 592). The “first wave” of the Feminist Movement
During the 1920s, women's roles in society faced significant changes in terms of politics, workforce participation, and cultural norms. This period known as the "Roaring Twenties," marked a time of social and cultural transformation in numerous parts of the world, including the United States. Because of the aftermath of World War I and the suffrage movement, women in the United States experienced new freedoms and opportunities which reshaped their involvement in society as a whole. Along with that, the passage of the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. New things such as a "flapper" which were women who were independent and had a different style.
American Women’s Cultural Liberation in the 1920s After World War I but before The Great Depression, American women went through a cultural revolution. This cultural revolution introduced the beginning of youth culture in America and liberated young women from their traditional gender roles that were part of the Cult of Domesticity(explain and cite?). These women began to partake and engage in activities that were considered unbecoming for them.
Women’s Changing Roles in the 1920s In 1931 Frederick Lewis Allen, who worked as writer and editor for popular American magazines, published a sweeping, lively history of the 1920s. Allen also devoted one chapter of his book to what he called “The revolution in Manners and Morals”. Before the 1920s Allen explained to his readers, Americans middle and upper class white families lived according to a very precise code of manners and morals. First and foremost, “Women were the guardians of morality”.
The investigation assesses the significance of women during the 1920s and what they were supposed to represent represent changed during this time period. It will address the way women began to act and their role in society. The main time period that will be addressed is during what was considered the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and how it later on impacted the role of women in the United States. The main focal point of this investigation is based in New York, rather than any states out west, due to the fact that these were some of the wealthiest people at the time therefore the women had more of an opportunity to act against the idea of how a woman should act and present herself. This will be looked at with two sides: for women to act the way they were