The Age of the Flapper

Woman’s Suffrage in U.S.

Woman’s Suffrage in U.S.

• Women step up during WWI

• Demand rights• Elizabeth Cady

Stanton• Susan B. Anthony• Rallies, Marches,

growing support

World Woman’s Suffrage• Finland – 1906• Norway – 1913• Soviet Union - 1917• US – 1920• Great Britain – 1928• Philippines - 1937• France – 1945• Belgium – 1946• Switzerland - 1971

Enter the Flapper…

Enter the Flapper…

• New Opportunities• New Jobs• Still chaperoned

housing• Emphasis on

independence• Jazz Parties• Bathtub Gin

Philco Battery Ad 1920’s

Considered a “phase”

Dorothy Parker wrote…The Playful flapper here we see,

The fairest of the fair. She's not what Grandma used to be, -- You might say, au contraire.

Her girlish ways may make a stir, Her manners cause a scene, But there is no more harm in her Than in a submarine.

She nightly knocks for many a goal The usual dancing men. Her speed is great, but her control Is something else again.All spotlights focus on her pranks. All tongues her prowess herald. For which she well may render thanks To God and Scott Fitzgerald.

Thought to be WILD!

Always Dancing

Shamelessly showing ankles!

Playing that Jazz Music

Running Around

Cavorting with “Flaming Youth”

This “phase” now an icon of an era…meanwhile other post-WWI

events were…

In United States…

• Wealthy, EXTREMELY wealthy

• Looking for new ways to spend money

• Prohibition backlash• Advent of buying on

credit• More buying

automobiles

In the World…

• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

• Freud’s subconscious

• Fitzgerald and the “Lost Generation”

• New Art forms

• Economies in Europe unstable

• Overall loss of the known, fear of horror seen and acts of war

Kandinsky – “In the Blue”

Klee – “The Goldfish”

Matisse – “Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Ground”

Picasso – “The Three Dancers”

Still, life goes on…

• The Big Parade, first war movie

• Chaplin entertains• Nightly Radio

Shows• Jazz spreads to

Europe• Economies

stabilize• Optimism for future