Black American Women In The 1920s Essay

The role of women and sexuality in society had taken a massive leap forward in 1920 when all women were given the right to vote. The roles of American Women in the 1920s varied considerably between the 'New Woman', the Traditionalists and the older generation, and the 'New Woman', including the young Flappers, embraced new fashions, personal freedom and new ideas that challenged the traditional role of women. The Traditionalists feared that the ' New Morality' of the era was threatening family values and the conventional role of women in the home. The lives of Black American Women in the 1920s were also subject to change due to the influence of the Harlem Renaissance and the change from rural to urban life in the cities.
Whatever their views, beliefs and situations, women in the 1920s were all effected by the rise of Consumerism in America and were influenced by mass
It is rather a shock to a European to meet a pretty girl of twenty-seven, to hear that she is employed in a drug corporation, and then to discover that she is a director. A shock to find a woman running a lawyer’s office entailing annual expenses of seven or eight thousand dollars, and making a living. It is a surprise to find the American stenographer earning four times as much as her European sister. All those shocks, however, arise out of particular instances, and, though I agree that the American woman has made herself a good position, when I go through a business reference book I find that not one in a hundred of the leading names is the name of a woman. In America man still rules; all you can say is that he does not rule women so harshly as he does in Europe.
In The Great Gatsby, the freedom of Daisy and the rebellion of Myrtle explain the evolution of the “New Woman” in the 1920’s.
Daisy symbolizes beauty. She is described as a captivating, young girl that leads others on with her naive and innocent