10-29-CH8-Roaring20s Flashcards
What’s the basic time period of this chapter? Is it defined by a specific event, what are the specific dates covered?
The decade of contridictions
What is the Title and dates of chapter 8?
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Does just thinking about the significance of these titles give you any indication of how you’re going to answer the main question and how Sara Evans is going to support her thesis?
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What is the “hook” story?
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- Intro What general theme does the “hook” story in the intro illustrate?
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List the Section Headings
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What is the conclusion? This is located in the last couple of paragraphs and are set off of the main text with a small flag emblem. (Read this after reading the intro and before reading the sections to focus the reading)
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Section Heading: ADD
- How does this section relate to the previous section?
- What is Happening?
- What changed for women from before?
- What is the difference?
- Why is it different? What are the causes? What are the effects?
What is the thesis?
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Yet for all their bravado, the triumph these flappers proclaimed were a ___?__ and contradictory
Conclusion page 195
Yet these new freedoms they were shaped and bounded by economic forces, but they are illusory
The final breakdown of victorianism
old, fringe is now mainstream
- Flapper girl
- Open discussions of sexuality
- Public socializing between the two genders (co-ed)
* drinking, smoking and dancing (co-ed) - Increasing appreciation for diverse cultural practices - Cultural Pluralism
- Harlem jazz music goes mainstream - the Harlem Renaissance
- ACLU formed to protect civil liberties
- Prosperity - increased availability of goods
- Women gain the right to vote
- but they didn’t care about politics
- Progressive era politics completely ends in the 20s
Contradictions
- Passage of the 18th amendment
- Prohibition of publishing “explicit” literature including
- Post office
- Religious fundamentalism
- against the teaching of evolution in schools
- Immigration restriction - National Origins Act
- Purposely banned immigration from undesirable countries
- KKK makes a resurgence and goes everywhere
- Immense economic instability - advent of credit and speculation
Good things that happened to women in the 1920s
Increase of white-collar jobs for women
* secretaries, sales associates expands * women are allowed to be wage workers in the public spheres * downside is that they still were there to take care of men * brings domesticity into the workplace * was a transitional job on the way to marriage * women are decoration in the workplace * NOT a career... they didn't have a path to management * Women are forced to compete against each other for husbands * marriage marketplace * this doesn't breakdown class differences or race differences
Sexual Expression
Pros
- Ability to discuss sexuality openly
- Women have sexual needs - who knew?
Contradictions
- hostility towards homosexuality - a deviant behavior
- emphasis on marital sex
- Women’s sexuality becomes commercialized
- used to sell products
- women had to use their sexuality to “sell” themselves into marriage
- Pressure to marry - the ultimate goal of women
- Women find their fulfillment with marriage - you are deviant if you are single
- Affairs become the norm
- Isolation of women from each other
Scientific Expertise
Pros
germ theory discovered
Cons
* errosion of the value of female traditional medical practices
