WWI Legacies: Flappers

Author Judith Mackrell explains the social movement after World War I that created flappers.

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[JoesWife]

Thank you - this will be helpful for my class on the 20s tomorrow.

[misterfrank]

1:32 a women is holding a roach man... what is this? Need answers. Respectfully.

[switjasmin]

Another reason (not mentioned here) was that WWI also killed off a high amount of young men in both working classes and elite classes. So even if the women wanted to return to the traditional route of marriage and motherhood - this option was closed to them. There simply wasn't enough men to marry the single women around. So this also contributed to women from various classes to want to have jobs and be self sufficient and take care of themselves. I saw another video that mentioned after WWI was over - roughly 8 out of 10 women were unmarried as there were simply not enough men in the same/ similar age group for them to marry.

[idontknowwhatiamdoinganymo]

Just wait for 2020 the age of electro swing.

[lisalasoya]

I read the book Flappers by Joshua Zietz and I can't help but think that era was some kind of lure. In fact, Zelda Fitzgerald ended up in a insane asylum. The women proclaimed the Jazz era but who were the musicians? Coco Chanel took precedence with her line, dresses & chandelier. But sexual revolution it seemed they were quick to act on sex & manipulations.Hernandez v. Frazier, No. CV SA-11-CA-9-FB, 2012 WL 12895544 (W.D. Tex. Dec. 7, 2012), report and recommendation adopted, No. SA-11-CV-0009-DAE, 2013 WL 12142355 (W.D. Tex. Mar. 25, 2013)

[sharkymcstevenson]

Now we have yoga pants with camel toes bursting out - way to go ladies! So empowering

[pg-otaku]

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