Flappers (jan 1, 1920 – jan 1, 1930)
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The idea of flappers in the 1920s was important during the twenties, a new ideal emerged for some women: the flapper, an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. In their bid for equal status with men, some began smoking cigarettes, drinking in public, and talking openly about sex actions that would have ruined their reputations not many years before. Attitudes toward marriage changed as well. Many middle-class men and women began to view marriage as more of an equal partnership, although both agreed that housework and child-rearing remained a woman’s job.
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