VISUAL ACTIVITY

“The Girls’ Rebellion” The August 1924 cover of Redbook, a popular women’s magazine, portrays the kind of postadolescent girl who was making respectable families frantic. Flappers scandalized their middle-class parents by flouting the old moral code. This young woman sports the “badges of flapperhood,” including what one critic called an “intoxication of rouge.” Fictionalized, emotion-packed stories such as this brought the new woman into every woman’s home.

READING THE IMAGE: In addition to the rouge, what else identifies this young woman as a flapper?

CONNECTIONS: In addition to flappers, what other developments in the 1920s challenged America’s traditional values?

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