Conflict Resloution
Conflict Resloution
We as modern American women are walking in the path that the women of the 1920s paved for us. The youthful flappers challenged norms yet some women were still carrying out traditional values. The idea that women were making progress towards equality with men was a severe understatement. They carried the country through wars with their efforts and ambitions and still were treated as second class citizens. With the resources from lecture and Leuchtenburgs Perils of Prosperity, I will explore the dynamic contradiction that the era of the 20s portrayed.
American had the Gibson girl which was ideally the perfect woman. Passive and obedient she would wait until a proper young man formally paid her interest with intentions for marriage. During World War 1 almost a whole generation of young men had died in the war, leaving nearly a whole generation of young women without possible husbands. These young women had decided that their young lives