The flappers, young women, had short hair, wore a knee‐length dress, rolled‐up stockings, and had unbuttoned rain boots that flapped(referring to the name Flappers) One famour flapper of this time was Joan Crawford. Joan had a careet as a dancer for Broadway before she decided to move to Hollywood to have her self known well for. Most of the young women liked her style and copied her. She did become very popular throughtout the era. With the new look of these women, came new values in this century. Some of the Flappers slang were "I have to go see a man about a dog" meaning buying whisky and a "handcuff" or "manacle" was a wedding ring. Petting Parties was where women would be kissing men in public. They started to have an open playing field towards premarital sex, which is defined has “sexual activity practiced by persons who are unmarried.” This is where birth control was first introduced. This was promoted by, Margaret Sanger. A quote by Margaret states that every woman should have a decision of how many children she wants, “Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man 's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.” And for that point, is why the birth control was so popular in the 1920’s because now the women had a choice whether they wanted kids or …show more content…
The women’s suffrage, the struggle for women to vote and run for office, did allow these women’s abilities to advance. Before the women 's suffrage movement passed, there was an Organization that was made called the National Woman 's Party (NWP). This organization was formed in 1916 to fight for the women 's suffrage and it was formed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and they only fought for the suffrage, nothing else. This suffrage can be considered as a red flag in this century. Margret Fuller, a advocate of the suffrage has a quote from her book, "Woman in the Nineteeth Century" quoting