1. Postwar Social Changes
Chapter 16, Section 1

2. The Roaring Twenties

3. Flappers
Whether working in factory, school, store, or office, the incomes of working women gave them liberties they had not previously had. They could purchase new and more daring clothing styles in the latest fashions - shorter hemlines, more casual designs, less constrictive undergarments, and brighter colors - which combined with short or "bobbed" hair to create the look of the "flapper" generation. One young Chicago typist was fired by her boss when she showed up to work with her hair "bobbed." Within a day, she reported, he called her back because he needed her typing skills. Within a week all the other women in the office had bobbed their hair also photo.

4. Women’s Lives
Flappers were highly visible, but actually a very small percentage. Most women saw limited progress in the postwar years.
While some women found careers, the home was still the most important job. Labor-saving devices became common in middle-class homes in the 1920s

5. Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and canned foods made chores less time-consuming

6. The "flapper image" and the increasing number of women in the workplace did not diminish the traditional role of women as homemakers and mothers. Technological developments in the 1920s did, however, change some of the ways in which women carried out those roles. Magazine articles and advertisements emphasized cleanliness and efficiency. This model kitchen for 1920 demonstrates an all-electric stove that freed women from some of the drudgery of cooking, and uncluttered and smooth work surfaces to meet the new 1920s interest in and standards for good hygiene photo by Morris Rosenfeld.

7. Iron Jawed Angels

8. Emancipation
Women pursued careers – sports, arts, pilots, newspaper reporters, novelists, etc– but most professions were still dominated by men.

9. Scopes (“Monkey”) Trial

10. Prohibition

11. Speakeasies

12. Trends in Literature
A loss of faith (T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises)
Many authors moved to Paris (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Gertrude Stein: “The Lost Generation”
Virginia Wolfe: Mrs. Dalloway
Finnegan’s Wake: James Joyce

13. The Great Gatsby

14. Harlem Renaissance

16. Josephine Baker

17. Billie Holiday

18. Jazz Age

19. Scientific Discoveries

20. Albert Einstein

21. Enrico Fermi
Nuclear physicist
Quantum theory
Manhattan project

22. Alexander Fleming

23. Sigmund Freud

24. New Trends in Art

25. New Trends in Art

26. Abstract Art

27. Dadaism

28. Art Deco

29. Art Deco

30. Surrealism
Automatic Drawing & Automatic Painting

31. Surrealism
Frottage

32. Surrealism
Grottage