{"id":3169,"date":"2019-05-04T06:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2019-05-09T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:26:28","slug":"women-in-the-jazz-age-1920s-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/women-in-the-jazz-age-1920s-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in the Jazz Age (1920&#8217;s-1930&#8217;s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;The Flapper&#8221; (1924)<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3371\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2019\/05\/flapper-in-shawl-and-beads-saturday-evening-post-cover-january-19-1924_u-l-phxcu00-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2019\/05\/flapper-in-shawl-and-beads-saturday-evening-post-cover-january-19-1924_u-l-phxcu00-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2019\/05\/flapper-in-shawl-and-beads-saturday-evening-post-cover-january-19-1924_u-l-phxcu00.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an image of &#8220;The Flapper&#8221; that was published on the cover of <em>The<\/em> <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em> in 1923. this specific cover depicts a young woman with a bob cut, makeup, and a strapless dress with beads around her neck. \u201cThe Flapper\u201d was a rather common image during the mid 1900\u2019s that was featured on a variety of magazines and advertisements that helped to redefine womanhood by instilling a sense of independence. \u201cThe Flapper\u201d varied in appearance across the media but was generally a young, stylish, and promiscuous women who partook in activities that were considered immoral such as drinking alcohol and sexual affairs. The role of this woman icon was crucial because it helped to redefine the role of women and became an advantage for feminists who were fighting for the opportunity to away from traditional women&#8217;s roles. With &#8220;The Flapper&#8221; being\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">widely used in advertisements and magazine covers, she symbolized freedom and independence through the advertisement of feminine products by acknowledging that women had incomes of their own. The image was also successful in creating a sense of sexual appeal. Through this sex appeal, the image symbolized the idea of personal choice which provoked women to do what they pleased such as demonstrating their sexual desires more publicly. <\/span><\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;Shave &#8216;Em Dry&#8221; by Lucille Bogan (1935)<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ko2VXpW7_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song \u201cShave \u2018Em Dry\u201d was written in 1935 by the American singer-songwriter Lucille Bogan who was famous for her sexually explicit lyrics. The song was published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance in the city of New York. In the song, she references her private parts and sings about engaging in sexual activities which brings her privacy into the public. With the help of songwriters such as Bogan, the Harlem Renaissance increased the normalcy of sexual topics and made sexual references less taboo. As a female artist, Bogan\u2019s explicit music was able to expose both men and women to a different view on women\u2019s roles in society that had been previously based on modest femininity. This source is crucial in helping to define the increasing prevalence of sex in the music industry during the 1920\u2019s and 1930\u2019s which in turn helped encourage women&#8217;s sexual freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Flapper&#8221; (1924) This is an image of &#8220;The Flapper&#8221; that was published on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1923. this specific cover depicts a young woman&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/women-in-the-jazz-age-1920s-1930s\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215391,149028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ana-matovic","category-spring-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}