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Do you think it is important to have a school dress code? Why or why not? Are there any rules you think are unnecessary?
The New MoralityThe struggle between tradition and modernity
The New Morality
A shift in the beliefs of many Americans during the 1920s on their ideas of family, relationships, gender roles, religion, and especially, war.
World War IIncreasing role of women in politics
Mass Media
Causes for the “New Morality”
Human Psychology
Mental illness in AmericaBelieved that mental illnesses
were untreatableSocial stigma (eugenics)
Causes for changes in mental healthWWI vets suffering from “shell
shock”Social conflicts increased fear
and paranoiaSigmund Freud
Conscious and unconscious mind Id, ego, superegoLife and death instinctsDefense mechanisms
Women’s Suffrage
Some success at local/state levelsProtests get more aggressive after Wilson’s war speech
for “preserving democracy”National Women's Party (led by Alice Paul) picket the
White House Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
Margaret Sanger
Founded the American Birth Control League (would later become Planned Parenthood)
Inspired by mother’s hardships with pregnancy and uterine cancer
EugenicistBelieved that families
standard of living would improve if they limited the number of children they had
Advocate of “the pill”
La Vie Boehme! "Bohemian”:
People who lived unconventional, usually artistic, lives.
Sought to break social barriers, refuting traditional gender norms and sexual stereotypes.
Greenwich Village, NYC
The New Morality for WomenNot the kind of girls you bring home to Mama!
Changes in SocietyWomen in the workforce
During the war, women took over jobs men left behind
Female occupations post-war Teaching Nursing Telephone operator Secretary
Women’s collegesPre-WWI: Genuine fear that
college made women unfit for marriage and motherhood
Post-WWI: new “modern woman” was intelligent and independent
New Roles in the Home and FamilyWomen became the
“purchasing agent” of the familyHousehold tasks become
much easier with electric appliances
Romance and relationshipsHighly inspired by the
romances on the silver screen
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