Trendy young women of the 1920s were nicknamed flappers, and the flapper became the image that represented the tremendous change in women's lives and attitudes during that period. During the early part of the twentieth century women in countries from Australia to Norway were gaining the right to vote, and more and more women were able to support themselves by working at jobs. Flappers were young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. Now considered the first generation of independent American women, flappers pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.
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Fay Wray
In the 1920s flappers represented a new type of feminism. They possessed different goals and methods than feminists of the early twentieth century. Having won the vote in 1920, middle-upper class women were no longer as concerned with political equality, rather these new feminists desired social equality.
