American Women and Leisure in the 1920s
ISSN: 2340-9630
Any de publicació: 2013
Número: 1
Pàgines: 153-166
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Raudem: Revista de estudios de las mujeres
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Abstract: Traditionally, the role of women was confined to taking care of the family, and they had little or no voice outside that sphere. The intention was that they would bring up children, keep the home, and look after their husbands who were usually the bread-winners. Consequently, a thorough examination of life in the 1920s will provide a degree of perspective on how women could handle and manage the social advances of the times with regard to their free time activities. We will clearly focus on the efforts of such a group of women in order to get their own leisure activities in society. Therefore, what we should explore throughout this paper is the continuous struggle of women in the United States in the 1920s and the following steps they had to take over. By merely skimming through this article, the reader should gain an accurate and concise notion of what these women had to go through in that awkward period in the United States.Keywords: the new woman, flapper rebellion, social rebellion, spare time, modern woman, status of women.
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