New Social Norms In Joshua Zeitz's Book Flappers

In the 1920s there were bold, venturesome, dauntless young women who broke society's idea of women standards to change the whole American culture. The book, Flapper, by Joshua Zeitz discusses the effects that books, movies, and celebrities of this time, had on the average women, which caused this era of flappers. These young women known as flappers weren’t the only change that the post World War One era brought. Throughout the book, these changes are brought up from religion to morals, to other changes, and these changes are what would completely develop new social norms in America. In the beginning of the book, Zelda Sayre is introduced to an example of what the bolder type of women was. She would later be known as the first american flapper, but in the earlier years she just was just one of

She was an aspiring young actress that was popular during the 1920s. Moore had connections through people who she received her acting job from, but she still had to work extremely hard to get to where she was. Walter Howley, writer, was her uncle, who went on to say “Colleen didn’t become famous overnight, but between 1916 and 1923 she appeared in at least thirty-five feature-length films, almost always as leading-lady or a feature-player”(Zeitz 218). In the beginning of Hollywood’s move from the classic norm to more modern lifestyles, Moore starred in a movie called Flapper Youth. Even though Colleen Moore was the face of the movie movement and became the visual expectations of the flapper, she was a quite more conservative flapper than the other one mentioned throughout the book, but a flapper nonetheless. Through all the fun and chaos the flappers were causing, it came to an end by the collapse of the stock market, Black Tuesday. This gloomy event will mark just the beginning of the Great