Roaring Twenties: Women in the 20s

Profiles the lives and work of important American women who fought for the female right to vote, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt.

A collection of eyewitness accounts which explore the impact the women's suffrage movement had on American culture, politics, and society.

Traces the history of the women's rights movement in the United States which culminated in 1920 with the passage of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

Profiles one hundred notable women from throughout history, including politicians, royalty, authors, and entertainers, describing their lives and achievements; those profiled include Sappho, Joan of Arc, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Traces the history of the U.S. woman suffrage movement in eighty-three primary documents, including letters, speeches, and accounts of meetings and conventions.

Explores how Prohibition influenced American history, discussing how laws forbidding the manufacturing, distribution, and consumption of alcohol in the 1920s impacted American businesses and the government.

Surveys the history of dance in the twentieth century, profiling key developments in ballet, modern dance, and avant-garde dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America, plus show dancing, tap, and jazz.

Describes some of the peculiar fashion and beauty trends practiced people throughout history, from the ancient past to the twenty-first century, and explains how the styles became popular.

Describes the shifting ideal of beauty in the United States, from colonial times to the present, and how it influenced and was influenced by societal and economic changes.

History of clothes and fashion throughout the ages and around the world, discussing the underlying motives of fashion and the ways in which clothes have been used to protect, express identity, attract, or influence others.

Finally allowed to vote, attending college, and joining the work force in surging numbers, American women in the 1920s experienced dramatic change. But the most indelible female icon of the Roaring Twenties was the flapper-short skirt, bobbed hair, dancing with abandon, or projecting insouciant independence with a cigarette holder in one hand and a glass of bathtub gin in the other.

Provides an account of efforts by four young American women athletes to swim across the English Channel in the summer of 1926, discussing the challenges they encountered in the water, the prejudices they faced as women in sports, and the very fleeting fame enjoyed by Gertrude Ederle who shattered the men's record on August 6, 1926.

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women from the turn of the century through the end of World War I and how they changed women's role in society.

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1950s and 1960s and how they changed women's role in society.

Explores the development and growth of feminism in the decades leading up to the Civil War.