Becoming modern

young women and the reconstruction of womanhood in the 1920s

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"In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Soland's social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader social and economic changes."--BOOK JACKET.