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Postwar Social Changes. Chapter 16, Section 1. The Roaring Twenties. Flappers. Women’s Lives. Flappers were highly visible, but actually a very small percentage. Most women saw limited progress in the postwar years.
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Postwar Social Changes Chapter 16, Section 1
Women’s Lives • Flappers were highly visible, but actually a very small percentage. Most women saw limited progress in the postwar years. • While some women found careers, the home was still the most important job. Labor-saving devices became common in middle-class homes in the 1920s
Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and canned foods made chores less time-consuming
Emancipation • Women pursued careers – sports, arts, pilots, newspaper reporters, novelists, etc– but most professions were still dominated by men.
Trends in Literature • A loss of faith(T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) • Many authors moved to Paris (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald) • Gertrude Stein: “The Lost Generation” • Virginia Wolfe: Mrs. Dalloway • Finnegan’s Wake: James Joyce
Enrico Fermi • Nuclear physicist • Quantum theory • Manhattan project
Surrealism • Automatic Drawing & Automatic Painting
Surrealism • Frottage
Surrealism • Grottage