With all these new advantages for women they soon became known on every level like men, and had also got to socially improve (Berner, “Women in the 1920’s in North Carolina.”) Women getting all these freedoms and advantages that only men were supposed to have, really was the start to the “new women” that appeared throughout the 1920’s.
As women started to gain many more advantages, society came up with a name for them and decided to call them the “new women.” The new women promoted how important hygiene was, and the importance to read and understand literature (Donahue, “Transition from Patriarchal Society: Women’s Rights and Gender Equality”). Learning to read, was a start on women becoming independent, and learning how to do things on …show more content…
As time went on people started to accept this change of “new women,” and the fact that this could make them independent (Benner, “Women in the 1920’s in North Carolina”). Even though society was on a trail of accepting these women, many people still judged them and said this was their way of being rebellious. These new women started to smoke tobacco, and do things that were “unladylike.” In the article “...leave it to women…” society said that once films started to promote women smoking, that made children feel as if it was okay to smoke. As smoking went against a woman 's gender role, so did them working. One woman said, “No, I don’t lose out with my neighbors because I work; some of them have jobs and those who don’t envy us who do.” (Lynd, “Middletown: A study in American Culture”). This shows that even though men were the ones who usually earned more money in the house, women still wanted to help because they no longer wanted to conform to what society had expected them to do. Many men were against this because they believed that a woman couldn 't be a mother, and work both at the same time (McMenamin, “Evils of Woman’s Revolt against the Old Standards”). In the article “Three-women, state, and Family in Latin …show more content…
These women would wear short skirts, and outfits that were above the knees. This was a huge shift from the Victorian time period, where women had to wear long gowns, and could not show any skin, or would be judged for it. Binding their chests, women rebelled against patriarchy showing that not all women needed to have big breasts to be considered women (Benner, “Women in the 1920’s in North Carolina”). When women started to wear things like this, they called it “boyish clothing.” During this time period it was bad for women to dress like guys because of how strict gender roles were in the 1920’s. If a woman decided she wanted to dress like a man, this would now show that she was independent, and didn’t need a husband to support her. Doing this put patriarchy in threat, but since men were more superior they wouldn’t blame it on men, they would blame it on women. Not only did flappers dress boyish, but they also decided that they now wanted to cut their hair short. As women started doing this they referred this hairstyle as a “bob.” Catherine shows how flappers acted, and how they dressed during the 1920’s. “This sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white.” (Fitzgerald 30) In The Great Gatsby this is how women started to act out, and show that they were flappers, and could be independent. When
As women started to gain many more advantages, society came up with a name for them and decided to call them the “new women.” The new women promoted how important hygiene was, and the importance to read and understand literature (Donahue, “Transition from Patriarchal Society: Women’s Rights and Gender Equality”). Learning to read, was a start on women becoming independent, and learning how to do things on …show more content…
As time went on people started to accept this change of “new women,” and the fact that this could make them independent (Benner, “Women in the 1920’s in North Carolina”). Even though society was on a trail of accepting these women, many people still judged them and said this was their way of being rebellious. These new women started to smoke tobacco, and do things that were “unladylike.” In the article “...leave it to women…” society said that once films started to promote women smoking, that made children feel as if it was okay to smoke. As smoking went against a woman 's gender role, so did them working. One woman said, “No, I don’t lose out with my neighbors because I work; some of them have jobs and those who don’t envy us who do.” (Lynd, “Middletown: A study in American Culture”). This shows that even though men were the ones who usually earned more money in the house, women still wanted to help because they no longer wanted to conform to what society had expected them to do. Many men were against this because they believed that a woman couldn 't be a mother, and work both at the same time (McMenamin, “Evils of Woman’s Revolt against the Old Standards”). In the article “Three-women, state, and Family in Latin …show more content…
These women would wear short skirts, and outfits that were above the knees. This was a huge shift from the Victorian time period, where women had to wear long gowns, and could not show any skin, or would be judged for it. Binding their chests, women rebelled against patriarchy showing that not all women needed to have big breasts to be considered women (Benner, “Women in the 1920’s in North Carolina”). When women started to wear things like this, they called it “boyish clothing.” During this time period it was bad for women to dress like guys because of how strict gender roles were in the 1920’s. If a woman decided she wanted to dress like a man, this would now show that she was independent, and didn’t need a husband to support her. Doing this put patriarchy in threat, but since men were more superior they wouldn’t blame it on men, they would blame it on women. Not only did flappers dress boyish, but they also decided that they now wanted to cut their hair short. As women started doing this they referred this hairstyle as a “bob.” Catherine shows how flappers acted, and how they dressed during the 1920’s. “This sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white.” (Fitzgerald 30) In The Great Gatsby this is how women started to act out, and show that they were flappers, and could be independent. When