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Roaring 20s: Women's Changing Roles and Conflicts Over Values

Explore the transformative era of the Roaring 20s, when American society witnessed significant changes in women's roles, conflicts over traditional values, and the rise of mass culture. Discover how these changes shaped the decade and influenced the future.

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Roaring 20s: Women's Changing Roles and Conflicts Over Values

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  1. Roaring 20s

  2. American Life Changes: New roles for women • Ratification of the 19th Amendment • Women elected to state and local office • Economic boom allowed women to join the workforce however in low paying jobs. • Attended college

  3. New Family Roles • Shifting relationships between men and women. • Basic rules that defined proper female behavior began changing. • Greater sense of equality • Break from traditional roles

  4. The Flapper • Young women of the era who defied traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior. • Chopping off their hair, raising their hemlines, wearing make-up, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and going dancing in clubs.

  5. Flappers • Suggested a lifestyle of great independence and freedom. • Dorothy Parker, “She’s not what Grandma used to be.”

  6. Modern Trends • Popular symbol of the 1920s that was used in advertising, movies, and literature. • Why do you think the Flapper, a controversial image and lifestyle, became such a well known representative image? • New Trends and cultural changes can result in conflict over traditional values. • Modern Trends? • Select one image that represents a current social trend and write a short essay explaining and analyzing the image, how it reflects the trend, and why the image and trend are significant.

  7. Urban Vs. Rural • Flapper crazy took hold in the cities and represented the growing divide between cities and country side life. • Country women either disapproved of the flapper lifestyle or considered it bold and reckless. • Older supporters of women’s rights

  8. Conflicts Over Values • Rural America represented the traditional spirit of the nation: hard-working, self-reliant, religious, and independent. • Cities represented changes that threatened those values. • Rise of the KKK

  9. Fundamentalism • Because of the changing times, Americans turned to religion and specifically fundamentalism. • A literal interpretation of the Bible. • Darwinism and teaching evolution in public schools.

  10. Scopes Trial • A young science teacher, John Scopes, taught evolution in Tennessee and was arrested. • Clarence Darrow represented Scopes, William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution. • Contest between the competing ideas of Christianity and evolution.

  11. Prohibition • Outlaw of the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol. • Hurt families and promoted crime • 18th Amendment 1919

  12. Bootleggers • Huge smugglings operations through seaports and across the bored from Canada. • Detroit, Michigan • People simply made their own • Foundation of great criminal empires • Speakeasies: illegal bars where alcohol was served.

  13. Schools in the 1920s • 1914 – 1 million students in high school • 1926- 4 million students in high school • Reasons: prosperous times and higher educational standards for industry jobs. • Expanding Curriculum • Immigrant students • Taxes increase

  14. Mass Entertainment of the 20s • American culture and entertainment • Media allowed the sharing of the same information and an enjoyment of the same pastimes. • News coverage – education made literacy in America rise but mass media shaped mass culture.

  15. Radio • 1900s military ships to aid communication. • 1920 began playing records • Westinghouse Company established the 1st corporate radio station KDKA • 1922 there were over 570 states across US • Break down the barriers that distance created allowing a shared culture to emgerge.

  16. Movies • Change in type of films available to audiences • Feature films • Sound • “It’s like writing history with lightening” • Cartoon characters – Walt Disney

  17. Era of Heroes • Movie Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow • Charles Lindbergh: 1st transatlantic flight • Amelia Earhart

  18. Sports Heroes • Radio inflamed public passion for sports • Golf – Bobby Jones • Football – Red Grange • Baseball – Babe Ruth • Tennis – Helen Wills

  19. Arts of the 1920s • F. Scott Fitzgerald: explored the lives of the rich and critically examined the values of the wealthy. • Women and fiction writing • Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms • George Gershwin and music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMNFvKEy4c

  20. Influence of Mass Culture • Choose a particular figure discussed in this chapter and write about how their art influenced the time. • Choose a figure from this generation from a similar background (music, art, writing, sports), and discuss how their art influences this time period.

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